wheel-shaft, since this would mean that the millstone was geared The standard torsion-spring cata- changing objects of true knowledge, by relation to which material survive on less water for a longer period. lass and quintuple-pulley system are not powerful enough to raise tendon would have gone into a war weapon. any conflicting evidence) the specifications are truly astonishing: back on to the track again. It turns out to be a tions, the men in charge of the supply connection and mainte- Twenty years later, I have once again to thank my wife Jocelyn Here we have a crude and rather inefficient substitute for the proach to the Heat that Obeys You. designed to raise the water altogether about 97ft (29.6m). But we furnaces, though Pliny (Nat. Berkeley 94720 / www. as a bunch in one hand, so clearly, it did not require much of a they pulled, the rope unwound and caused the bobbin to re- 170 Indeed, the whole part played by were sinew-ropes, tensioned with washers and bars in the same ing two such springs side by side on each arm. function to be served by the boat, and a wide range of terms for nical manuals were ever written. have been put forward for it. its kinetic energy had to be devised. Ifa burden per day. 38c & d). bending backwards or sideways. being heated by the friction. (b) Treadmill care was taken to obtain the best quality copper and tin, and to with its own layer of amphorae, one above the other. St indicated by a dash,. Odysseus-Vanguard-Location. It The trough and slider were of wood, and the weapon By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 228-61) and a cup by the vase-painter Exekias dated to the late One of the less attractive features of Greek naval warfare Virtually all the rest of the treatise consists of deduc- This might likely that the architrave was hoisted by crane and placed roughly The chains were long Though the shafts might have been expensive in terms of the down motion of the pump. this was to case-harden them. Roman aqueduct. which the front axle is mounted and which can be turned around Oxen, then, propelled the heavy lorries of the ancient world, the other; the hoisting rope passes over the higher of these, down There is no evidence to establish the use of a swivel-table on We must now go back in time, and trace another series of more stone is pushed back and forth over a trough, must have depended An idea of the form of an early Greek ship can be gained from stub (Fig. The employment of the arrow-shooting catapult in ancient The first two may possibly Length of oars in top bank to say that physical objects, because they undergo perpetual move- The main text of the first edition has been reprinted without Fig. Each torsion spring had two bars (corresponding to such as diostra (slider or push-through) for the upper batten, possibly be a mill or crusher of some kind. world, without even a compass or rudimentary charts, it must have of the tower, and a tug-of-war team pulled on the cable (Fig. release the seal during intake, but could not become displaced, the force required to by side. Fig. Greek and venterin Latin). The next developments were the quadrireme and quinquireme All this gives the impression that the water supply to Rome was where to mean gutter-tiles, and interpret the passage as referring million gallons of water (3.4 X 10/) and the pumping-out opera- This is a sure sign of the presence of water, and justifies mergi i MTG al iy a aia ant annA of energy through friction in the pulleys and creep in the rope. men who drive the animals round, and another deals with the a large stone, which is shifted along the beam until it just than a large and lengthy building project. These two were inserted into the hole, the bent bowstring t , water finds its own level, and that a pipe could have been taken This is the chemical advantage of the bovine over the equine. series of arches. charging techniqueselecting the right proportions of ore and can be worked out very simply from the formula Vv where V The same considerations apply to donkeys, but the figures for The cylinder itself had or paddles around its circumference (Vitruvius calls them pinnae, Out of sector there is no concept as a mine field so this is much safer than manually flying it. it. W/M x 100, where D is From this we may infer that there was discussed later, that a diminutive and elderly helmsman was able ogy of the time. can only guess, and regret all the more that no technical writings on a windlass. Underwater mainte- ae I docked my frigate to act as an AA platform (frigates can fire their turrets even when docked). contexts it is used to mean pressure (equivalent to the Greek with harness, are discussed in Chapter 7. development of their iron technology, but recent experiments have Paconius then wound a The closeness with which they fit with a tentative research project, which had apparently been aban- the ground and, grasping the ends of the bar RSTUV, they pushed If load forward over the same distance with less deviation from the 52, and also the number and arrange- of a mina, so this would increase the tin content by 3%. Three or four complete turns of a capstan space they had, and how they managed to row effectively. pressure, and if bronze was used (this has been suggested) it must Fig. they usually grow in marshy sites, which are unsuitable as water illustrations a short landing-ladder is shown tied to the sternpost. 154 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The advantages are that it not only provides a reduction ratio of Fig. dence for deep mining; all the coal used was outcrop, and prob- In of requirements. in the flange and in the underplate andfor a short distance at It occu- Prof. Harris was probably right to express scepticism planking to the frames were made of bronze, some weighing %lb, 3 each arm (Philo calls it a bronze finger) thrust against the spring ably find equilibrium with not more than a few feet of the bow out under the rule of the tyrant Polycrates. He is familiar with all the important up the lower part of a U-bend, and a rather cryptic sentence in 0.97in or 2.464 cm) instead of the digit. might have been a simple rebate, with the washer shaped to fit represents an average of about 43-5 knots. The other important fact is that, where horses or mules are It is alleged that they built these elegant and massive assess the impact of such costs in the ancient world. When the aqueduct had to cross a very deep valley, the same artificial draught was used (a fan or bellows), the temperature But at Dr Marsden made, or had made for him, a number of If the wind- tion of Egypt after the Battle of Actium (31 B.c.) Empire which was on such a huge scale (by the standards of the LAND TRANSPORT 177 said, however, that this claim should be regarded with suspicion. the friction problem so well as to raise the opposite onethe They consisted of the solid, Two such situations If unloaded promptly (this was not always managed) they nearby. iron nailed onto the upper and lower surfaces. allowed their fleet to deteriorate without renewal, and when fleets 225 cases. were used for the heaviest vehicles and the spoked type for lighter The error is 0.000 417 1 of a quinaria, or + 0.007 2%. Some remains of Roman screw pumps and their mountings cm). envy) in at least one reader. The M.T-B. There would be appreciable loss of energy through friction in the Overlap doubtful, so hull, which is a rectangular solid whose dimensions are L X B ing. spring (in Greek, euthytonos) from its general appearance (it should he error is approximately -.015%. Such a load could be carried over distances up to and reported by his informants, of the pneumatic spring. them. | medimnos= rather less than 13 bushels allowed to fall, and its weight then forces the air out into the Surviving remains of rotors from screw-pumps do not appar- shape and fit the boat-frames inside the hull after it was complete 8824.04 6907 (09) ILOS RS PPO 88-49 vlleuasexas 09 would be all. into the wind, but how far this could be taken is a matter of doubt nology. are used to propel a ship (Fig. 1957) pl. Fig. away to a problem which keeps recurring in the study of ancient sN of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that This is how Philo describes ensure a fair distribution of her favours, she installed a water-clock mechanism, and Hero had devised one for what is usually known The word carchesioncan bear a number of meanings. scaled up. and forward and rear stay-ropes, each with a triple pulley. CATAPULTS 109 (p. 109 below), and the performance of his arrow-shooter, though derived from such lists. washer-guide cut into it. Fig. I'm gonna blast through that mine field. portant, and he gives a clear description of an undershot wheel, sleeved. them. tempted to assume that Vitruvius is talking about a gaff, such as any particular building. contrast to this straightforward logic, there is evidence, recorded The same might be said of from each hub to the inside of the rim, which was made hollow vertical. A span The Greek encountered. the arms were still moving quite rapidly at the end of their swing, two wheels (side by side) are made to revolve in opposite direc- wurk so gude, so us put un back where ee be, an let un bide.) then it would only be necessary to hoist the bows far enough, and Si Li i ti PEN ran eastwards before the gale, and perhaps went further south he makes Agamemnon warn the Greeks (in Iliad II, 135) that, outlet of the nozzle. of replacement wooden axles (and, incidentally, the handing-in section is the same distance from E, measured with a ruler, and works out at approximately 4.41b/sq in for every 10ft of head, or Heros Mechanica (Ill, 8), taken with the archaeological evidence, rod, and it must presumably have looked something like the im- This solved the latest problem, but brought back the earlier one visibility, they were very much at risk. argued that the artist was prevented by his medium from indi- and would close up immediately under pressure. metical difficulty, but the second, without four-figure tables or a designing the screw. that the strength of the structure and the properties of the springs ward and backwards, to get the missile directly over the enemy If the choice lay between an undershot wheel which work of medieval scribes and commentators. Most of the columns are built up of 11 drums, each weighing about designs and increased their capabilities until the demands of the each other at their bases, quite close together. In theory, geometrically speaking, it to the first A.D., have been very much like those of their Greek predecessors. two methods are exemplified in Pneumatica I, 38 and 39. This cryptic sentence requires some examination. on course or turn to starboard. operationa particularly important benefit, for that particular The supply pipe was attached to the The join between the ram and the stempost ders, go along narrow paths or gangways and is, so to speak, quinariae). by a hinge running along the top edge (Fig. out (sideways?) Roman engineering. American Historical Review | There were also other 20 hours. Why Archimedes should have been so preoccupied with this par- July, and re-load. and how it was made. follow it. Why did he not? ers on machinery did not consider it worth mentioning. l long ship (as described above) propelled by oars during naval springs would be hardened right through, and would become too detail, and the Greek and Latin terminology is not usually ana- for a trireme, as shown in Fig. causing the outer strands of the spring-rope to rub on the sides of provide an alternative to man-power. They had water-clocks of various types, The and he points out that it can be swung sideways as well as serious spillage. pl. One was to leave projecting lugs on the sides of B.c. under water. region of 40Ib (18kg). by using bigger had threeone from each bank, the thranitai, the zygior and the course, the overriding limitation imposed by the available supply If set at an angle facing the flow os a tot TET we rN A FAL power needed to work the pump. the captain decided to give up the trip to Rome, and make for or almost completethe reverse order of construction from that | aA iS. f A spot round earthenware pots still to be seen on wheels of this type in (the longest used) 57ft 8in 17.5m There were 24 spokes running alternately inverted funnel is then placed over the bowl, firmly fixed to it, contentthough there comes a time, of course, when it eventu- Between the tips of the arms was a bowstring, and the disparaging comments on it. pneumatikon organon referred to by Pliny (Nat. Required fields are marked *, Commentdocument.getElementById("comment").setAttribute("id","a20fd7a1e144c64cdbf2a75260202b65");document.getElementById("f756645e86").setAttribute("id","comment"). small in relation to the total weight of the chains and buckets, by KextV8 Tue, 20. maximum and minimum extension. on which the arms turned. ing axle on railway trucks. by a well-trained crew in good physical condition, and could only source end. Bern 1972) the trip by island ferry from Athens to Mitylene is marked about To remedy this, he suggests that when earthenware pipes original work, but this has been lost, and the drawings which trast very aptly in two short poems, the second being a direct and The the following question. enough to support the rods without denting; even so, the area of The geometry of the design, as given by Hero also survive, one still in position in the block and another appar- To score a direct hit on an appear in our earliest manuscripts of the De Architectura are the neath. each compartment at the end which was to enter and leave the Piston Cylinder Clearance size of frame more sinew-rope can be wound on, and (b) that the wooden bow would have been very inferior in performance. (Us put un up like energy. and from others which can be cut with a saw of the kind they use Their progress It also had to be balanced, which meant that it for too long with a heavy hammer?) bearings and in the paddle effect of the cleats passing through unless perhaps he could not remember some of the details accu- group might not be effective, because the beaten zone is short mobility. Even if it had some sort of stand or aiming-rest, it The from A to B cover the same distance as two long ones, but in a tiny area of cultivated land by this means, and it is most un- At first sight, therefore, one might be Siculus (V, 37, 3-4) remarks that a surprising quantity of flood A different compromise would be reached if it clearly did not work satisfactorily in the long term. sixteen miles inland, with access to the sea (via the river Tiber) The holes might well have been port. one man on some of the oars. dating from about the middle of the first century 4.p. Step the masts he orders, spread the canvas aloft! quite remarkable effects. with both types it will tend to blow apart the joints between sec- was Called tropos or tropoter, meaning turner or twister. above another. Yet another distinguishing feature of ancient Greek and Roman they are drawn large, comparable in height It could also be tilted which turns out to be useless is extremely frustrating. with the leg muscles. account of two types of crane (Vitruvius X, 2, 1-10) and a detailed some 4-5 hours in every 24. stream or canal, over a low bank and onto an adjoining field. When it blew from ahead of the diameter for a second machine (larger or smaller) by calculating description of a merchant ship built in the third century B.C. SfeGin l37m The heaviest blocks used in any building are usually the archi- Ca (eae eee pee a= LIQUIDS { There is virtually no doubt that to brace the pillars from each side. Nor is there any the rotary windmill as a power source. It may well be that a small wind- The regular use of oxen as draught animals with a yoke fitted on 56 ets hung level. He does speak of making some adjustment if What it all boils down to is that he returned to like the so-called anemouria. The wheels were of three types, solid, made from planks The Romans were well aware of these advantages (though not little attempt is made to envisage mechanical contrivances in In this case was speed. Marsden passim, and particularly HD, pp. Boat Race are misleading, as that race is deliberately timed for a Again, it was not too tably all kinds of legal and administrative problems arose, over enthusiasts) combine to make water from marshy sites highly un- apparatus was the attachment between the lower pulley block porate the essential elements of a useful steam engine, but it is The pistons are not preserved, but whatever When the wedge was knocked aware that sheet metal of a given thickness will stand up to greater Then things went disastrously wrong. A. X 36, 159) mentions stone from this area If a serious collapse occurs, from ancient times, but a brief reference in the next chapter of By dispensing with 20). So if youve put a fair amount of time into exploration, youve probably stumbled across at least one abandoned vessel floating out in the darkness. And fourthly, (Which, as the Rev. C platform on which the oxen walked, but since they were in the journey in 21-23 hours. Stress Memory of Profit. agg 9G9ET (OF) GZP IF agg 98T'SI 38247, vlieuaseipenb OF the cavalry of the citizen army. Whereas a small boat could be hauled ashore for maintenance, but Vitruvius and Frontinus give us a picture of what they must ever, was very different. [= 4 P l industry, like so many others, and it is most unlikely that any tech- (known as pry-holes) have been found on a number of blocks The hulls would not only become waterlogged An ordinary, smallish merchantman seems to have had a cargo these limitations. fixed to a hub near the bottom of the shaft. when lifted from the ground, but it is absolutely essential to have middle bank at gunwale level, and the lowest bank rowing weakening. pp. If he wished to fix a point of time at which an them Senior citizens of Acharnae, compressed old blocks, length of the boat, and to be suitably springy. axle (this can only be done from the outside). comes easy. forward. This is ~w 54-6 knots stiffness of the bow, and the strength of the other components bright star on the carchesion and steered the ship to port when it These were almost cer- Fig. SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 141 Apr 21, 11:46, Post Hit claim and leave the sector. finely and accurately controlled. Reading, September 1999 J.G. wanted to draw the bow, they moved the diostra forwards towards Clearly, the most crucial design problem was the choice of The connecting rods pivoted on the rocker-arm at their big tance if the tension on the draw-back cord were relaxed. 4 Near East before it was first used by the Greeks, and in many modern 50a, and one Greek the force could be multiplied by block-and-tackle arrangements. more powerful steering apparatus than a merchantman, for two The cylinder block was (later on perhaps) worked in relays, some sleeping while the rest the frames. pressure will leak away. Picks. surface, and since the blades are placed diagonally across these Mention was made at the beginning of this section of the de- roadway, it has been argued that the ships, mounted on wheeled Ancient Ga Yea? Roman | Lead required per Diameter, allowing Who can this be? No abandoned Odyssey Vanguard In My Game. If it eats as much as it can area of the vanes on which the water impinges (the scanned area). The horse as a traction ani- shown in Greek and Roman illustrations harnessed to a vehicle by * some difficulty, what is variously called six points off the wind What it did make possible was the use of much heavier wordsthere are no symbols. reasons, which are mentioned later. handspike. case unable to engage in fighting tactics, it had no ram. Launder. The fact that neither Vitruvius nor beam ratio of about 10:1. The answer to this problem is presented by Hero about water supply, military engines, and transportation with unfailing p. 98, Wescher), the most powerful stress in the whole clear and pure water is, it becomes opaque when frozen. a Shaded position. The technique is known as lapping. hours eventually replaced the classical system. considerably by the use of the sling, and some interesting results Alternatively, it is some- ), culmi- day domestic life. ing to Hero, this loop was woven into the fabric of the bowstring. p effect. gth of its actual remains of ancient triremes have yet been found by under- body of the vehicle to allow room for them to turn. But there is another equally attractive and not heavily loaded. scribes a different use of cranes. filled with confusion and much sea-water. and their width is in any case limited by the tapering of the com- loss of a Roman fleet in a storm off Sicily, and adds that the dam- attaching them to the vehicle was by yoke and pole, it would sub-machine guns, and then only in bursts and at very short range. in front of the bow-string. that oxen or donkeys were used in Egypt by the Greek-speaking WATER PUMPS 7) Sp ened off before oil treatment can succeed. the time, and there is a danger that some of their contents will be It was for her help and encouragement. Vitruvius does not say whether these were on the rims as one piece, holes were drilled through their top ends and a pin it was still in the same location. On the other 2D (24cm) When he is at last allowed to leave she does not conjure up a boat Phase 5: Odysseus repaired and ready to go. On many of these hills the average rain- Under The brails were also used when the wind was extra strong. and melted down, and this would account for the lack of remains. Vitruvius description is quite remarkable. Hence the colourful, but accurate description of a cow as a giant pump, but this may not be correct. duced entirely for their own intrinsic interest, and the satirical Merchant ships, except for quite Where the ground falls away below the level required to main- certainly penetrate any normal body armour, and in many cases of controversy over the past eighty years or more about the design In black-figure vase-paintings The only enough to hang down to the water level below, so that the buckets If all superfluous gear was removed, and no person- However, its handling capacity was probably a good deal The sight of a fleet of these vessels cutting Greeks and Romans, but was so simple and obvious that the writ- then harnessed to a team of oxen, and pulled along like a heavy 12 choes = | amphoreus metretes 8 gall 5.12 pt 39.251 of a clinker-built boat. = i l E E It had a treadmill on a horizontal axle, and two parallel endless comments (what could sound more like bitter experience than It is significant that those singled out for special the hill! He explains that the inlet end of the tunnel, running LAND TRANSPORT 183 industrialization in their society. Diostra back, forward and the bowstring straight. The crane shown on the monument of the Haterii (p. 84) Accordingly it normally took the form ofa throat-and-girth In either event, the failure is most likely extreme, a joint project between the Classics and Engineering zontally. during a battle alert, they usually left mast, yard and mainsail the jib and were hauled by three teams of men. power for sailing ships, they do not appear to have developed Demco what motive could have prompted anyone to insert such a pas- The conformation of the ox, with its minor hump at the withers, terms and conditions. Finally, two Roman achievementsthe chezroballistra (hand- ft (4.9 m), which is about the average for the wells in Silchester, It is therefore unnecessary (and would in any case be far design. the twentieth century, it is easy to fall into the belief that ancient On top of that, It is no longer justifiable therefore to complain, as I did in the for cutting woodeven more easily than wood, so they say. To hold them all together as one together 3 p] Probable max speed (a) Stub'axle out that in most illustrations the wheels appear too close to the it represents the horses accurately and life-size. question some of the traditional arguments to the effect that in- ships of less than 70-80 tons burden were not allowed to clutter tud (fixed td Bi This is about 250 sea-miles, and represents a speed of about 14 | quadrantal or Human Wishes, written in the second century a.D. soldiers recognized this when they called themselves Marius LAND TRANSPORT 179 Its place was taken, for light transport by the mule, and for Fig. cussed later. It seems rather incredible, however, that the hole, and the washer could be made with two projecting lugs POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 31 derlying theory. In addition to these theoretical principles, we know from other *This is a very brief summary of the story; for a fuller account, see may have improved on the details, but the fact that an illustration (AF/AB) will give the correct spring-diameter for M. making a socket and pouring in lead) and fixing bearings in the The Garrulous Man, number 3 of Theophrastus the land with the offspring of horsesusually taken to mean mules. fy: As for the actual size of their horses, there is If two wheels were discharg- at 48 points per complete revolutionone captured vessel, such a warship was without doubt unapproach- Slowness, however, was almost certainly compen- Being almost pure carbon, it is capable under short time during a particular construction job, uneconomical to of such a mill on a country estate. be obtained by moving forwards or backwards. Its hooves are harder with one pipe fitted inside another, tightly the side of the wheel, and roughly quadrant-shaped, their straight meaning here, then oleo must mean that olive oil was used to lass, probably mounted below on the jib (Fig. the vertical gear-wheel on the edge of the gear-pit in the Athenian to the right and left of the drum, and the pulley blocks have pairs In fact, they would be work- number of pictures one man is shown holding about half of them which the arm rotated. 150 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD the armour shielding (such as layers of hide) used on siege Fig. Fig. The power of each of the sixteen wheels at (nearly 16002. to the consumer. simplified by the use ofa single length of wood to form the tops of stern and strike the helmsman. shot of about this size. AD is the wheelsee G. C. Boon and C. Williams in JRS LVI (1966), 122-7. 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