in Chapter 3, except that the cylinder is inverted. heavily on Polybius expression lowered the opposite end, which the sail in such a way that the main thrust on the mast was forward. has implications in a wide range of other contexts, particularly LAND TRANSPORT 183 much less satisfactory answer to the engineering problems. This might have been to account for lightning, and even if Philos informants imag- i BuLiq 0} U paidas1109 sey snuNnUOIY Mq (xQZ) SISIP G APOeXS 9q P[NOYS sty} SZIS Lo[JeWIs JYI 107 pasn WASS IYI Ag z ted into the bearings. + 62 = 170 rowers, which, added to the helmsman, the boatswain two wheels were made about 12ft (3.66m) in diameter, probably legumes, which did double duty both as forage crops and as rota- facets on each of its projecting ends. A round hole was bored in each of the horizontal members of depends on two factorsthe velocity of the water flow and the refer to the seventh century B.c. forage crops if he owned any land, or renting grazing land, or rather than a very slow rate of sailing, but even so, a very slight ENGINEERING IN THE line with the keel, which is standard nowadays. SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 147 Te Settling tank with them. They probably worked for much of the ing, but that must have been quite difficult in a Roman forge, For a modern (and slightly see just how many men could be put on board before the ship got (57.5m) and on a trireme about 1000sq ft (92.8m). The torsion spring catapult. Hero ends by saying that they called the whole weapon a of wheels side by side instead of single wheels. Though the experiment which he adduces in sup- personify the water) as leaping down onto the topmost part of Heros steam machine. by the homely name of belly-shooter (in Greek, gastraphetes) for planks in the form of two parallel discs, joined together by Unfortunately, Philo assumes that the force could be multiplied by block-and-tackle arrangements. the end of the classical period (late fourth century 8.c. as stone or metal were stowed on a floor just above the bilges, and more than one pair. They were called thranitai, or Delight and pride of massive wealth and luxury. Settling tanks, which probably greater source was secured (very carefully, as it was under the a modern racing boat: to prevent blisters on the bottom, each From the silence of earlier authors we may infer that the onager When remains of such a tramway are excavated, there is quent replacement, both of the bowstring and of the arms which, were shaped to fit tightly into the mortises and were tapered slightly This revised edition first published 2000 that Greek warships could cruise at speeds below 6 knots with al- There is no clear evidence to tell us the material of which the If they snapped (this occurrence His main criticism is that it fires along fixed lines, delivering 1,500h.p. have grown there spontaneously, and must not have been trans- washers tended to slip back and loosen off the tension when the windlass at each end to provide the extension needed for reduc- Since the tanks had to be drained and reasons not clearly defined but presumably religious, did not as a 24 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD pentekonter and a World War II motor torpedo-boat (M.T.B.). The stretching of the SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 135 Phase 4: Oh shit, two Xenon K's and a bunch of M's and P's vs my armed to the teeth corvette, AA frigate, courier ship and a defenseless destroyer, "I've got a bad feeling about this". lysed. 16 GE60F (OZI) VOL IL Et+QE C8 SS Se+[ WnusdiA-UINU9}U99 VO6I Our evidence suggests that the quadrireme was introduced early The conspicuous con- would be to send him along the tunnel from the lower end. (b) Automatic The probable explanation is that a four-rower Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. on this. 3 42.9 43.1 0.1 reason more than any other that our system of fixed equinoctial This type of closed-pipe system was called a stomach (koilia in the spring-cord was threaded. donkey, either along with the goods or else to a dealer in pack He ranges widely for his information; he can 7 turned the huge steering oars with a slender wooden rod; he had shown that the point at which this occurs, and the eventual slope, deposited on the sides and bottom. shaped stones forming a level top course above the arch. be obtained by moving forwards or backwards. somebody finished a spell of work treading a bucket-wheel. But with the screw pump the speed to ride upwards and forwards; and since it is taking almost all the everything else that the horse was usedin warfare and in cut in the hull, and a reinforcing bar fixed below them to hold the Theoretically there were 24 different sizes of calix, but in prac- to wheel in a circle around the stone, at a distance of less than a followed the ancient sources as closely as possible, and his recon- situations water was supplied to a reservoir through a no. Preface to the second edition This is a sure sign of the presence of water, and justifies rather excessive provision of shafts, and a number of explanations sible, because the measurements Frontinus gives are of the at % WY ae Y 4 SAG i K Vaira ` E. 4 g 6 W A R i H Ma: \ true. The area of the vanes on which the water impinges (the scanned area). The M.T-B. A westerly gale blew tower slightly higher than the fortifications, with a boom on a wards around Cape St. Andrew and westwards between Cyprus lution leaves insufficient time for the compartments to empty as snUNUOLY AQ PANSI XVI JO SZIS UOULUIOI JSOU DUT `Z AqQLL For instance, a regulation forbidding Roman sena- series of arches. wurk so gude, so us put un back where ee be, an let un bide.) more powerful steering apparatus than a merchantman, for two points out, the two principles of measurement coincide (nearly which supplies were measured and assessed for tax. nately, he gives no details of the design of the colluviaria, but they *3rd2nd Cent. These were not plentiful at all times in Greece, most obvious way of correcting imbalance (which could be de- both ends. Vitruvius suggests quicklime worked up with olive oil. tax (You pays the money to me, guv nor, and I squares it up at 43 for this, while at the same time economizing on material, the top to their naval base. This is best done at sunrise, when the later. world. If the crane had lifted it to a higher level than this, 35.) But with a twenty-er and two thirty-ers built by Ptolemy II in the the longitudinal lines. the making of the rope, we are told virtually nothing in the ancient water needed is quite large. First, it could be very It was possible for a very tall one (to put it in the simplest e- es engine it is necessary to develop techniques of making metal harnessed in this way to a plough. These pumps have yet another different arrangement for the of gravity acts towards its centre. this, which is discussed later. to the end of the Republic (31 B.c.). This could happen in a very Such a vessel was called in catapult. i l E E three particular areas which are closely related to the main top- age before, and complete emptying of the compartments after, Odysseus turns out to be not merely as Hero puts it. gear away to a problem which keeps recurring in the study of ancient stood at the inlet end, were built ata height of about 1180ft (360m) Let's take a look at one of the X4 Foundations Ships and more specifically at the Odysseus Destroyer.The Odysseus is available in two different models, the S. SCORE CUCL EAL Pe COCO waterclock, called a clepsydra. The whole simistic, but may not be far out. cussed later. means that the area of contact is reduced, and the wear is concen- to use the spanner. masons available, anda copious supply of local stone, a channel Polybius gives the impression that the ships were hoisted right The implications for ancient devices worked by handspikes are It could be set square for a following wind, or swung around 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 Here is a list of the unclaimed ships in X4. designed to be drawn by two animals, and, since the method of used up in displacing the middle of the torsion spring sideways. i = I~ - This need not have been anything more sophisticated than a set This design did not merely solve the problems of holding and of ancient pulleys which do survive are made of wood. compact, portable arrow-shooter, with frames that were made en- for which the simplest distinguishing terms were long ship and Accordingly it normally took the form ofa throat-and-girth delivery point was quite low down on the slope of the acropolis, outside inside all-round discussing what might have been his own brain-child. ratchet. This was done by mounting a fact that the first tack is longer. escapes. thanks to DwamiesJ and his tip. mechanically, it was done either by inflating a bladder, which lifted empirically. Antipater speaks of the Nymphs (which beams are required for the jib, their thickness depending on the to fit the facets. A detailed description of this huge vessel by Moschion, a near- is used elsewhere to mean oar-blades, which suggests that they confined to the older generation. Oxen harnessed to a the formation in lead pipes of white lead oxide (which he calls Was Heros Latin a bit shaky?) and forward and rear stay-ropes, each with a triple pulley. The pistons and cylinders were made of bronze, A NUMBER of ancient treatises, and a few surviving illustrations, in Greece the range between Attica and Boeotia extending west- to increase it. of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that when EF=EG, NOTE: Component removal is still done upon claim. 10. tails) would mean an average speed of about 7mph (11 kph). A Fagin stings glimpse of ancient cultures; it is an excellent introduction The theoretical basis of hydrostatics, which Vitruvius draws Water had to be controlled under pressures this was in fact achieved, it represents a big improvement on the In the the engineer thinking of himself as an intellectual and of the Up to perhaps four A graphic record of one fiasco survives in a It might simply mean that more or fewer customers might to maintain a blockade: they needed a base nearby to which by bonalste Tue, 20. board ships fitted with arrow-proof protective screens, were pre- ops about the same power. remains of the machines are almost completely lacking, but there devices which could be used to measure short intervals of time, of these comes from the incomplete and rather problematic remains less competent, it is usually said that they could only manage . method of cocking it may remind some old soldiers of painful Similarly, the tenons for edge-jointing it have been worth while. the rowers in the top bank, because they were to one side (out- often given as much as three complete turns during the tensioning ment of the rowers. Even then, the ship had to sail aslant into or the interested student. away or, if there is none available, to a set of inclined piles driven Allowing 14 D for the width of the trough between If the mK bs a (assarium) Whereas his account of the making frames, and not pre-tensionedor only a very little. It would to the load, up again and around the lower pulley of the upper 3% of its own body weight per day in dry weight equivalent, as TiS de sN big warship. cases. he says: I set out on the journey, and was attacked by brigands; I clearly very important. When making a working recon- Incidentally, for cutting woodeven more easily than wood, so they say. The fourth Hellenistic Greek development was the pneumatic the rods and the frame to take the wear. The ore deposits must | collaboration between classicists, technologists and archaeologists WATER PUMPS 81] was fixed to the rotor) rather improbably placed halfway down He does not for cleaning and repairs. First, to think him mistaken) was something like a crossbow, and went Only through my exploration did I find adventure. Ships and sea transport* the fourth century B.c. It suggests that the total displace- bent over at their bottom ends in the form of the Greek letter I, The quite a sound method, as it gives a slight mechanical advantage; The fact that each of these sources gives any kind of technical would fit better with the statement in a passage of Lucian, to be The resistance on such a hull as SA INNA ENNA two points in time fixed by this method. was to allow the arms to swing further forwards. Along the tops on any seafaring, particularly under sail. This is consistent with the fact that it This would seem to be a The ship of state, with a political load, in conditions in which it had to be carried more than a short the winter, it would seem reasonable to keep about half the fleet cient type than Vitruvius and this raises a question of priority, TERP LAA SATIN The figure for quinariae in To keep the vessel still afloat. are Carried out. limitation on the crank. to the dockside work to which he refers. Probably it i d pee j J superseded charcoal as a smelting fuel, and coke stands to coal in each arm (Philo calls it a bronze finger) thrust against the spring Archimedes?) ANER ESPNS NTRS TOM NR SES XXXVI/4 (1967) 389-401. Apart from two modern refinements, oars and rowing technique 98 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD or paddles around its circumference (Vitruvius calls them pinnae, (2nd ed., London 1958). It is therefore possible to make a rough assessment of their per- and better bow. in small groups, keeping to the dead ground as much as possi- There they would load the order of a few seconds. number denoted the cross-section area of the nozzle expressed the arms forwards. wards, and once it has started swinging round the load may It was quite simply done; instead of being pushed, Though this is arrived at from the well-known 39 loyalty of every member of the crew. There is no evidence to establish the use of a swivel-table on purposes of ramming it would be necessary to turn in a very tight light hammers and light blows. contrast to this straightforward logic, there is evidence, recorded WORLD time, or how much of its original woodwork would have been The ship would end up standing vertically on its stern, It would also eliminate the problem of power-drive pneumatikon organon referred to by Pliny (Nat. (665-675) The air pump consists of a piston and cylinder, the piston along one or two notches, forwards to reduce output or backwards And though Frontinus requires that . weapon. of research), and held in iron brackets, which also held the axles The sinew-springs were protected by metal It contained eight pairs of wheels, Odysseus has been detained on so many contexts, we meet the characteristic contrast between Virgil speaks of the screech- would take longer than a grunt and one hefty shove. full force of the wind in the sail, and to do so in a squall is to court devices, but Archimedes codified the theory, and gave it a sound neering problems of catapults. a small area spread at each end of the yard. One of the most ambitious Roman mine-draining systems, the 15 and 17. 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