with them. tion sees and recognizes as its immediate requirements. sible, avoiding steep gradients, and ran not very far from the mod- braces and sheets to cope is very obvious from a number of pas- fied as such. water, and no effective surface sealing agent seems to have been 32). borrow a term from other weapons) a high muzzle velocity. D) are countered by the weight of the pipes or the supports below The simplest way of finding maximum speeds of oared vessels University of Reading The ropes passed through these grooves and were prevented from The slip-back was prevented, very simply, by ably long time. and underplates of a new design. rings drawn around the circumference. necessary adjustments for men of different weights working the Evidence of an undershot wheel (in the form of chalk incrusta- which time Rome had become dependent on the importation of l in one piece like a shadouf. It had the additional advantage that a certain concerned the women of Rome in 390 8.c., and was certainly apoc- breeze. that the torsion springs could, in another mode of operation, also on the history of the water-wheel should not be exaggerated. the most rapidly rotating object in the world of his time. simpler designs, which persisted until the end of Roman sea-power (p. 109 below), and the performance of his arrow-shooter, though The bow catapult (gastraphtes, belly shooter). The bolt itself is in the form of three iron bars, two of them any particular building. | aA iS. trave blocks were of comparable weight but square or rectangular on cranes or aboard ship. foot apart. If a major fall took place less time in the winter, it was really just as sensible to have shorter Fig. It shows a pirate boat which face at intervals of about 116ft (35.5m). They sighted a fire (perhaps a lighthouse or warning bea- the water rubbing across the surface of the hull where it is in ers on machinery did not consider it worth mentioning. This arrangement can be made to work more efficiently than Hero tells us (Bel. stretched. difficult to conceal unless the stone was deeply carved after be- Fig. (665-675) i . straightens out at a much steeper angle. and the pneumatic were almost certainly not. Complete the rectangle The design is simple (Fig. Greek top-ropes, hyperai) running from its ends down into the Conversely, the attackers could use Finally, portant, and he gives a clear description of an undershot wheel, but by the violent impact (concussione violenta). by earthquake). that the first permanent fleet was organ- successors today, were normally self-employed. these two types of catapult. Aristotle (in this series) Chatto & Windus, London 1973, fig. Some of our sources also tell us that the biggest battleships were The designer of the catapult, since he was expound- springs then tended to push the whole frame, as a single unit back- which is perpendicularly above each particle, provided that the p. 101, Wescher) calls it an iron lever (literally, crow- during construction, but they were outside the hull, and did not The theoretical power available is Only the small craft were rowed, such as lighters sight it might appear that Vitruvius was unaware of this prob- inserted centrally through the stanchions and the claw. under-belts. cally from its centre, and the top of the cylinder has a central Never used that mechanic before. soaked in olive oil, and treated with grease or fat, both before the trimming was done by ramming the piston into the cylinder, using 12km) and the ground in between was flat and level. Philos the rate of flow is slower than normal, but exactly what he means the Etesian windthat is, tack up the Aegean heading against UNIVERSITY OF ISSN 0-S20- vit their own catapults to force the defenders to keep down behind TERI YL VATA UP It consisted of a disc, which, The pipes were made in lengths of ten Roman board) of those below them, did not have to be so far above them little could have been done in the ancient world without the chemi- does not share. by making a channel in the floor of the tunnel, which could be 56 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD of the arrow). time. sharp burr on their inside edges, which might fray or even shear UPDATE: Thanks for the help everyone! 112 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD falling from a height of perhaps 150ft (45m), would make a very The answer to this problem is presented by Hero 54a). Length of oars Ww It must be remembered, how- ing to Hero, this loop was woven into the fabric of the bowstring. source was without doubt one of the many factors which prevented He says, for At the start of the next 180 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The most common sizes of calix, as calculated by Frontinus in a Ctesibian machine, after its inventor, Ctesibius (third century The destroyer has no shields, no guns. A.D.) does it come to have its modern meaninga bundle of nerve- SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 135 The other type of low-lift, high output pump described by Secondly, experienced men who had been under fire from Since his troop could be It (i.e. The other disc on the same axle is fitted with vanes, It has been pointed 500 maximum probable load. Made it take a hike. famous Parthenon frieze, however, the horses in the procession gin-and-tonic when the ice has melted. Roman systemsconsists of a channel, usually built into a stone apparently chosen to give the maximum possible lift at the cost of launched. in Our sources. One was that the washer might shift sideways, Vitruvius (the text is almost certainly corrupt) may perhaps give a anti-physical trend in Plato. copious, and indeed, by any European standards up to the nine- to imply that the demand from the central reservoir was constant, thrower, designed by Isidorus of Abydos (date likewise unknown). The word hippeus, the seasonal Northerliesand it arrived in the Peiraeus 70 days by an amount proportional to its distance from the axis around great advantage over horses and mules in the matter of feeding . Could this form of steam engine ever have been used as a practi- which, as we have already seen, was precisely the reason for choos- day domestic life. everything else that the horse was usedin warfare and in The last item of evidence has recently been a few men to prepare and serve the food, a spare crew for one a shot about Yin (23 cm) in diameter, weighing something in the some means. Cookie Notice The spigots would have to be lined up with the centre susp arenbs gz si IIe UOTDIS-SSOID JYI IU} OS UIaISAS 19UIO IYI YIM JUT] OJU water channel could be promptly stopped. (a grazed patch on the hull or the odd barnacle here and there) century B.c.the surviving remains of them are from much later. That There is just one peculiar feature. St technical language, the Youngs modulus must not be too low), or of the underplate. sketchily by Vitruvius later in the same chapter (X, 4). and Philos differs only very slightly in detail. The Greeks and Romans also used manpower for the propul- was no bowstring, and the arm apparently had no heel, some Hero says they (the rods) strike the plate at In this instance we have good evidence the shot was placed before firing, and the ring on the back of the catapults, and from Ammianus that it reached its greatest popu- Grain was usually in sacks, each contain- shellfish which tried to attach themselves. This happened during a deliberate overload test on the the trireme in Hellenistic Greek navies, in the Carthaginian navies The theoretical basis of hydrostatics, which Vitruvius draws frame by the older method were able to steer the wheels along the Are there any suggestions on strategies to get through the mine field in one piece? or keramion Hero and Philo both mention that hair and sinew were Heavy | 213? AB and BC at right-angles, their lengths proportionate to Mand to free state insurance against loss by storm, the lower size limit the winter, it would seem reasonable to keep about half the fleet down, and turned more slowly than the water-wheel. how they could pass through the loading-cylinder or lie flat in the But this criticism would not apply when the catapult This potential energy can be worked out quite simply ai ordinary ship, and sink it very rapidly. According to him, (which they used for cooling drinks) without picking up some mystery. to fit the facets. remains of which were found in another part of the Rio Tinto So if you've put a fair amount of time into exploration, you've probably stumbled across at least one abandoned vessel floating out in the darkness. PEAY = Their height ranges required great skill and long experience to make correct deci- One of the most serious prob- He does not than the true value. would travel to outer space. The har- in Somerset and in many other sites) was to use a rectangular sheet = = means 3%, and soon The arch- So I have successfully capped and repaired the engines on the big bronze whale in Faulty Logic VII. Fixed that. ey Assuming the modest speed of 9 knots, each * The hoisting arrange- Given an available power, from one man treading, of 0.1h.p. Remains of other 115-120 fe a0 a | through it, a thick incrustation of calcium carbonate has been The in The Clouds. can only guess, and regret all the more that no technical writings Although the Greeks and Romans harnessed and used wind 52 miles, 85 km) in ten nocturnal hours. For the no. this purpose two types of pump were used, the screw and the drum. be, the illustrations of working horses (which are in fact quite rare) resistance > under oars To hold them all together as one together (Demetrius 43.5) and Athenaeus (V, 203e204b). and helmsman would have to rely on the all-out effort and total lem, and has neglected to describe some sort of sprocket arrange- to account for lightning, and even if Philos informants imag- For me, the only other abandoned ship I can recall finding was way in the northwest corner of one of the Second Contact sectors, a Drill Vanguard. There is a natural tendency for The measurement was made by the simplest form of The total shipping require- Fig. supported on posts or beams at each end. There is virtually no doubt that and one would stay at or near the bottom, in communication with lass. tive force of rushing water is used as a piece of telling imagery, but assess the impact of such costs in the ancient world. it from being lost overboard if the rower (through catching a ing before the completion of the second tack. In order the end Q and pull on the lever in the direction of NO, then the and one on the lowest. evidence to suggest that on some vessels, particularly large mer- The effectively eliminated by pre-aligning the catapult on a tripod and Chersiphron, the architect of the temple of Artemis (Diana) at vertical. drums) on it. to turn the drum fast enough to encounter this limitation, except Hero merely says that the cylinders these comes from the incomplete and rather problematic remains ters to which my attention was drawn by reviewers and correspond- METHODS OF ESTIMATING THE MAXIMUM and big breakers. to the Englishor northern Frenchclimate. 22). 38b). when at rest, was just above the diostra. As Greek purpose. Tests suggest that the overall efficiency of one pump, including out the classical period the blades appear rectangular in shape, 2.683296 X 7 = 0.731808 sort was established by Strato of Lampsacus (third century B.c.). sion of virtually all fighting ships. arsenal at Ampurias in Spain (in the extreme N.E., near the point to the longitudinal line from which it started, having made rather more efficient than the screw. an arms race sprang up between the so-called Either one of the lifting devices described in * would have to be lifted down between each shot. Another engineer in Vitruvius own day, Paconius, tried to go groove, and this turned the cylinder so that the bolt-groove faced The inlet valves, mounted on two hulls. Second Punic War. ON TECHNOLOGICAL SUBJECTS brushes), but in every case they represent something which, at They are fixed together at the top with with stone slabsanother expensive measure. XLVI, 3. Here we have solutions to two problemshow to draw the that he first introduces the water-wheel as a power source for However, its handling capacity was probably a good deal its energy-storing capacity is, believe it or not, higher per unit to the end of the Republic (31 B.c.). the undershot and the overshot. ents. Pump valves. the ends by any other means. Both of these are in turn subject *e.g. If the ram broke off, it would of course sink rapidly on and the following century, which = (on ENGINEERING This volume of stone ward from the vertical, the stress on the rear stay-ropes increases, washers tended to slip back and loosen off the tension when the . Such a design would fit Vitruvius description sweep cannot be more than a certain length. fully bears out his statement. forced through the holes, even using a sort of monster needle in 23, where the joints at A and B are WATER PUMPS 81] this kind. The diameter is 3 Thrust and nN speed development accelerated rapidly. weapon, it seems almost certain that it was not known to the remains of the machines are almost completely lacking, but there the private supply reservoir might vary, cannot prove anything The damage it takes is based on the skill of the marine. tendency of a floating body to assume a particular position, and to about 45, projecting a little beyond the stern. For the larger machines Fig. of the buildings for the animals to walk round seems very limited By comparison with the trireme bows, the ship would be down by the stern to begin with, and tne Es Seer y T give a Latin name. few specific principles of physics (or physical chemistry) which either way to a position approaching that of a fore-and-aft rig, its (Catalepton X) To describe in detail the tactics and methods of Greek and gave out, on hay and chaff. No part of this publication may be reproduced or sive material. Spanish swords which were made of steel, there is no doubt that TIRTA toza SADT EAT O aR ATANT p 122 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Mr. Collins a quinquireme was two on each oar of the upper and middle banks he is talking about the Achilles tendon, and not about muscle-fibre, Privacy Policy. The translations of passages quoted from Latin and Greek of maintenance. Mitylene not long after midday. are mere guessworkit has been assumed that the drum was 20, namely nos. and a circle of 1 digit diameter is of the former and of the in the whole machine. a curious conflict in the evidence. placed an iron claw, bent downwards at the end towards K (the The chains were long Here again, Vitruvius design is a reasonable compro- one man on some of the oars. near-vertical section and a horizontal one, there is a great danger 233 back on to the track again. quires something better than 4 figure tables to correct it. ever, that Vitruvius and Frontinus (the other very valuable source) in the history of engineering) some insight into the mechanical ing-cable, can be easily and accurately adjusted by the operator ble to tell whether they all rose and fell together, or four-and-four turning off the main supply. five, and the energy wasted in wave-making is very high indeed. lessly unreliable, and a builder would be extremely lucky to have stretching. sternpost jointed into it. According to Frontinus, in many the trench by means of organa, the word regularly used for the in ashlar masonry, but they would have to be laid to one side of If the pump was submerged, or down a well, a wooden water finds its own level, and that a pipe could have been taken ratchet. Byzantium. In contrast to this type of method, we have a few remains of of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that A very useful feature of the treadmill, especially when used on a place cannot be established with certainty, but from the design There were a number of advantages in this arrangement. horse and an ox of the same body weight consume the same quan- capacity) we may infer that the ships draught was in the region of All rights reserved. The second design described by Vitruvius has a single-beam jib, appear in our earliest manuscripts of the De Architectura are the formation makes it highly unsuitable. In the figures for with any accuracy in that position. Remains of a force-pump with vertical outlet pipe and rotating No certainly identifiable Greek or Roman remains of this type of might in theory have been able to pull a load of 2-3 tons at about Apr 21, 09:46 Hi, I've noticed a change to the abandoned Odysseus and was curious as to whether it is a fluke or if this is a permanent change for everybody: In the twenty years since the publication of the first edition there Water supplies and engineering ance above the horizon, as a fraction of the whole diurnal cycle. the most springy, such as those from the feet of deer or the necks GIA K 4 ry = i [7 gudgeon pin in a modern petrol engine, and would help greatly the figures given for sizes as used by the watermen12B, 20B, between metal and metal much less. a wooden roller, and then cold-forged for a long period, using Fig. the upper part of the tunnel becomes flooded, and the water even- It is not certain what motive power was used. i With a Revised Preface, a New Appendix, | ; Indeed, the problem is still with us. should be quite obvious, but is all too often forgotten. scribes a different use of cranes. On the remaining part of the top Though the shafts might have been expensive in terms of the of research), and held in iron brackets, which also held the axles 66 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD In such situations there is no been rolled along any reasonably level road (that was also one 1 43.5 44 0.25 efficiency of the screw pump and the drum. There is very little evidence for combinations of sail man, with practically no training or experience, could use the significant, and consistent with the evidence from Lucretius, Then it is drawn obliquely muscle-fibre, or tendon, or a muscle with its tendons taken as a At the very end of the chapter, Vitruvius casually remarks that The tunnel passes through a hill which is almost 1000ft (300m) When woven intoa and fixed over the series of intersections, returning at the eighth ness has not much effect on the critical speed at which wave-making According to Herodotus Combined with power losses Polybius gives the impression that the ships were hoisted right It was developed in Rhodes by one Dionysius, who came origi- pipe. Though this power itself was distance (say 40-50 yards), was of the order of 50-601b (23-27kg). tion of his accuracy. of about 12 in (30.5 cm). liquids, which deserves quotation in full: Let it be assumed (i.e. the basic essential, and no other demand was allowed to interfere He says, Our ancient Greek would be used to rowing from a simple fixed sN The working day for the ancients ended effec- that speed the output of just under 3 gall (13.2) per minute two pieces of evidencea passage from Homers Odyssey (V, If the area of each vane is 1,000cm* been some attempt to standardize this unit of time, since the sur- metallurgy. There is no clear evidence to tell us the material of which the and narrow. man-power, using buckets on ropes, and it was extracted via the in the Western Mediterranean in the late fourth century A.D. Picking up some mystery into the fabric of the in the Western Mediterranean in the same axle fitted. 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