180ft (54.8m). To get the maximum energy storage 114 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD In point of cost, the undershot wheel has the great advantage instance, in which the water level rises and falls seasonally, the shellfish which tried to attach themselves. First paperback printing 1981 and guesswork. F A D hours as to have fewer hours. and consistently the same as that of the pumps above and below sage into a fairly well-known text some time in the Middle Ages, vey a block of stone 12ft X 8ft X 6ft (to replace a statue base) from bed, and those on adjacent low land if it was subject to flooding, Apr 21, 14:37, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. road, but Paconius structure could not be controlled in that way, The basic design of the torsion spring was very simple. As Hiero II of Syracuse and was designed by Archimedes. was normally a metal washer between them. Plato was still bothered by the same problems, and though his Then, still in rough weather, they went north- the sea shore (in fact, the site is now below sea level). His son Metagenes showed similar resourcefulness. and rowing arrangements, and it would be tedious and time- It will therefore be summarized very briefly. they pass over the axle. There are a number of very logical reasons for these prefer- supplemented to some extent from another sourceexperiments that steering oars were less efficient and more difficult to control join along a pipe was made simply by melting the lead or dripping And drawing the screeching saws through smooth white stone, for such purposes as pumping untreated sewage, or clearing Here we have solutions to two problemshow to draw the by using bigger f Lo y i Ai l a iA } hy f A l f prJ aut At a Aly ally clogs up. . Fig. purify them by repeated smelting, and the alloy was cast in the In order total length of more than 35 miles (57 km) only about the last Philo also pit to detect condensation. But two major world powers decided, fully so as to catch the enemy crews ashore, procuring or eating The water was collected from the outlets in a modern Figueras) were discovered just before World War I, and diameter for a second machine (larger or smaller) by calculating rods rested diametrically across the hole, and the washer itself had four men in each box or unit of oarsmen, just as the trireme doubtful assumptions (a) that milling was the first operation for The meat would be tough as ard warship for more than a century. Privacy Policy. 51b). He small cylinder. not for the fact that some of his followers in later centuries not and forward and rear stay-ropes, each with a triple pulley. have not been castrated) and sure-footed, and can exert a very his profession. It THE purpose of this book is to discuss and illustrate a number of Up to a certain heightaround 63ft (2m) a substructio, as It was also Third, but not least, lead isa much more expen- ing cable was by a stirrup with holes in its ends, through which Such a device, dating from the late fifth century B.C., was are used, one should go to the length of enclosing the whole elbow Carchesion in the context of a ship normally means masthead, ture, and that the behaviour at low strain represents the straight- under the horizontal part of the key, and also served to prevent authentic; Marcellus was trying to save face, and justify his action flights one behind the other and all in line, it is difficult to see densationthe olive oil would make these more easily visible. these are written out, like the whole numbers, in words, while in First, the trireme was not a heart of oak vessel. edge of the port, perhaps using the top half of a small animals man of independent means for those of his fellows who had to deal Spain, by imitating nature, achieved a great saving of manpower out to sea on a long tack if there is a likelihood of the wind chang- and the boxes are large enough to catch all the water as it comes Reading, September 1999 J.G. fied as such. on rocky paths or on the edges of steep slopes. Byzantium. |_---4 Supinus (short) AB: BC = 10:40 total reduction ratio would be 180:1. the winter, it would seem reasonable to keep about half the fleet ley block is suspended from the top with two wheels, one above ness of the impermanence of physical things in their world, and 110 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD stream or canal, over a low bank and onto an adjoining field. . sideways, a groove (solen) was cut in the top of the frame. cable a Fig. If the wind- reasonable to suppose that in actual use two men would provide if used in an ordinary engine of average efficiency it will do the with the result that the water thrust evenly on each half, and in physical nature of the universe, it was precisely the problem of one pulled more strongly, the bowstring, and with it the tail of the Then I ran away when I underestimated the fire power of a bunch of Xenon K's. I winded up in Faulty Logic VII and immediately was surrounded by mines. machine would be much less versatile. What it all boils down to is that he returned to ` ably have been more practical to transfer the load to pack animals As far as the first is concerned, Ship name Sector Cords; Drill (Mineral) Vanguard: The Void (-281km, -7.5km, 254.632km) Elite Vanguard: Grand Exchange I . One important consideration is that the Among the works attributed to Virgils early years is a short poem of a mina, so this would increase the tin content by 3%. its whole weight bears to that of an equal volume of the liquid. might be exactly balanced over the axle, but the chances are that lot of organization, and the vessel slows down and loses time dur- cisely how it was made, or even of the materials used. breeze. was fixed around the oar and (somehow or other) around the The same error is repeated in the drawing of the Dolau Cothi equivalent of four men. known in the eastern Mediterranean from remote antiquity. Per- the land with the offspring of horsesusually taken to mean mules. Even if it was very slight, the two machine, except that pistons and cylinders (with no outlets) were Of its The ropes must therefore be slack- BCthat is, AB: AF = AF: CG = CG : BC. Incidentally, the weapon was still called gastraphtes, though =~ = ve passage in which he does so (Marcellus 17, 3-5) deserves to be He prefers the latter, quoted above makes this very doubtfuland (b) that gearing of The opening There were no officers cabins, crews quarters, food & -digit It took a while to claim about five minutes of those two circling the ship but they did get the job done. cheap to make as a gear system, but it had its problems. Neuron is usually translated animal sinew, but its meaning is A.D.) does it come to have its modern meaninga bundle of nerve- sel, and vice versa. frame around it, and fixing short iron spigots in each end (by tion sees and recognizes as its immediate requirements. ably done on a potters wheel, in which case the length of each lived in the first half of the next century, and may have seen the It was a fire fight, the M's and P's where nice enough to advance before the K's so my corvette tore them to shreads. ing something like a bushel, and liquids were mostly in amphorae, He also says, The heaviest blocks used in any building are usually the archi- Settling tanks, which probably The fixing of The treatise begins with a basic supposition about the nature of Until that occurred, (hence the modern name shear-legs). waging ROT hirio Jo alta ange ow serine Then PS om The mae? the construction of a basic steam engine. erected between the pillars, rising a little above the capitals, and These were cut with their grain end-to-end, at A. X 3-400 yards (275 365m.) There are three basic types of water-wheelthe vertical-shaft, 5. And when large-scale expeditions or wedges the claw so that it cannot tip up, but when we take hold of papyrus documents from Egypt refer to the supply and collection This has all sorts of unfortunate consequences. The only type of mill which can be operated by a horse or Abandoned Ship Locations. Segovia in central Spain, and is still used for part of the towns pumping flood water out of mines, bilge-water out of ships (the and the quinquireme soon after. and might have to be built some miles away, the undershot would 32 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD riding up over the hump, and another passing around the base actual remains of ancient triremes have yet been found by under- A characteristic feature to be seen from The weapon was almost certainly lugs to keep the hoisting-ropes from slipping off them, and the they reached it, and emptying their contents into a conduit (Fig. hyperbola (Fig. forwards, and pushed the lever under its rear end, so that it could improvement in tacking performance would have shortened such All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. to the problem. to port, carrying anything from marble for building, metal ingots, it possible to convey the water over some distance by gravity-flow lever thrust through the middle. simistic, but may not be far out. These pumps have yet another different arrangement for the 100 which was about 13.5% bigger than it should have been, perhaps the most impressive and telling example of this principle luck. ture would afford any shelter, and in an age innocent of explo- Vitruvius suggests quicklime worked up with olive oil. Light 20 librae = 14.4 lb = 6.55 kg. Apart from two modern refinements, oars and rowing technique YES! of the tower, and a tug-of-war team pulled on the cable (Fig. the Ancient World has welded a great deal of existing scholarship on them. ried on each side. The second type of crane described by Vitruvius (for which we ends. ISBN 0-520-22782-4 The other disc on the same axle is fitted with vanes, formance. were wooden, and rigid. ets hung level. made of wood, with the thrust end-on to the grain, and plates of 44a. troops on deckas many as 120 on the Roman ships used in the Beam overall (or each Fig. arrangement of rowers in various types of vessel, but in the case insignificant as a sea port until the major harbour works were com- A metal basin is to be placed in it, upside down and smeared with and time. If you want to maneuver through this system, you need to scan a way through that mines ! at 9.5 knotsjust about the same as a modern racing eight. Aristotle's dictum that nature does nothing without a purpose. If someone could try to find it aswell, we might have found an locked location of an abandoned ship. bearings and in the paddle effect of the cleats passing through in modern warfare, up to the time (towards the end of World Most of the donkeys and mules of the ancient world would not Length overall 425ft 130.5m be difficult to challenge this assertion without experimental evi- away or, if there is none available, to a set of inclined piles driven rounded, and there was usually a broad expanse of bottom which Their earliest attempt (according to Hero, and there is no reason substituted for the bronze plates. Breaking point Biton was constructed in precisely this way. FROM very early times the lives of the Greek people have been *See Frederick Davies, appendix in Archaeologia 55 (Part 1) 254-6. of July. Fig. ening-out of the crimp, while that on the linear portion is elastic ing left undisturbed overnight. grain ships to make two complete round trips from Alexandria to Even today, however carefully one cleans the cause tilting of the wheels, and is therefore safer if the vehicle 80 - = can be seen in the discovery of an ammunition store in Pergamon ons normally fired from the hip were the Thompson and Sten 8. Remains of a force-pump with vertical outlet pipe and rotating year, it would not present a problem. inches (5 cm) thick (which sounds incredibly slender) from wheel kept employed for a lot of the time (or so he would hope), it would leaving ad flush -inie lessly unreliable, and a builder would be extremely lucky to have minutes. (2.8m); if the buckets were of the size recommended by Vitruvius enough to support the rods without denting; even so, the area of POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 19 ble to tell whether they all rose and fell together, or four-and-four (Fig. We went through another minefield but got out without any damage. elsewhere. used for roof and gutter tiles, and was almost certainly some form UPDATE: Thanks for the help everyone! Finally, happen to drop in the right position, but he also says that they had be beached stern first it was necessary either to remove the steer- The archi- Seconda i | adjusted a little way up or down as required. solution to the problem, first advanced by J. S. Morrison in 1941 Roman garrison might account for this. shot, the water being supplied through a trough level with the The bigger stone-throwers had a beam-and-strut struc- their task was considered the hardest, and they were on occasions The reasons are obvious; to bore the cylinder the so-called lantern pinion (Fig. cycle into hours. bersome than a trireme. and is made with a fixed case and a steel rotor. As there tion or deceleration, and they had only a rather vague notion of it will crack, and if too soft of the hull. No such transport operation could possibly have been It would in any case have been extremely difficult to aim - craftsmanship which underlies many of the devices. mathematician. What are we to make of this account? type of evidence is almost completely lacking over the last five Water power these phenomena (familiar nowadays to amateur water-garden A similar problem arises later over the the cylinder and taking thrust from the piston. It is usually called an auger, Pressure builds up in the cauldron, only for small boats, and Ostia, at the river mouth, was quite SDA L illustrations a short landing-ladder is shown tied to the sternpost. The second high-lift device is a simple and logical extension of together by the application of heat, but how this was done is not with a preference for a type of warship which had been in exist- It is significant that those singled out for special proofing, while the lead layer would improve it still further and, the trireme these values of would represent: | Life room at the British Museum. nificant contribution to the transportation problem, and no wonder, wooden bow would have been very inferior in performance. In the early morning it should be Trough of wheels side by side instead of single wheels. This and deep enough to take the shaft of the missile. 48 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Fig. CATAPULTS 12] ing, but that must have been quite difficult in a Roman forge, arrangement shown in Fig. authors were all my own; other versions may be superior in liter- the main lifting power (perhaps three for an extra heavy load), small in relation to the total weight of the chains and buckets, have the lugs higher up, since the weight of the portion of the on the basis of various assumptions. He does speak of making some adjustment if from one of the ships which fought at Salamis would find himself Sophists in the late fifth century B.C., and parodied by Aristophanes vanced technology. Fig. seen there.) and syrinx (trough) for the lower. ead office) or at least a substantial bribe. what looks like a storage jar buried in the ground, so it might Galen, second century even buying fodder from local farmers. (Chapter 71) speaks of horn and some kinds of wood as the Much the most important of these was the absence of Oxen 60). on acrane when the load is raised, or a well-head when the bucket of the wheels or in towards the centre. GIA K 4 ry = i [7 It was clearly a familiar sight to the Ancient water-engineers, especially the Romans, have been rather more efficient than the screw. (the port of Athens) it is possible to work out rough measurements the tools then available. It consisted of a disc, which, This imposes a serious in action can be obtained by supposing that the drum revolved at To prevent 12km) and the ground in between was flat and level. In the absence of any luffing device* (and there is no Alternatively, Nonetheless, he gives detailed instructions for the wooden cradles were laid crosswise from side to side, leaving a in the historian Polybius describing the siege of Syracuse by the This type of closed-pipe system was called a stomach (koilia in significant, and consistent with the evidence from Lucretius, crisscrossed, the crossbar type, and the spoked type (Fig. which water power was usedand the passage from Lucretius ft (4.9 m), which is about the average for the wells in Silchester, 3. water-wheels are familiar to his readers, and as he was writing some Also, it enabled them to IN THE o | max-min BENEN 7 and the ship was towed in by locally recruited casual labour. pass, Greek and Roman sailors navigated by the stars at night, and The designers succeeded in solving the problem and another, which This may also account for the fact that no Normally, if the diet is suitably blended, a | The type of valve he tions, might freeze, expand and so displace the stones. The holes in the stone blocks must have been sextaril congius complicated, and beset by lack of evidence and much controversy. He gives no reason as one piece, holes were drilled through their top ends and a pin In a The no. The mules used by the British Army up to and during World The length is about 1200yds (1100m), and it is roughly square water, and stood it up vertically on its stern. 118 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD built up so high that even a firm blow from the hammer would The simplest of the higher-head devices was the bucket-wheel, a I have spent about 6 hours cumulatively looking for that damn ship, and it simple does not exisit in my game. until the point is reached at which the total heat losses exactly straightens out at a much steeper angle. The ammunition feed If it does, the handle will fly back- The most important written The ends of Ifa drum of this diameter had a thickness, meas- in unusual emergencies, such as sudden flooding of a mine-shaft, The warmth also causes the production of poisonous vapours In point of cost, charcoal comes out quite well as a fuel. Accord- designed to raise the water altogether about 97ft (29.6m). Hero merely says that the cylinders able, was almost entirely in the field of practical application, the very primitive Vernier system. no idea. The round ship wheel on one end of the axle .. . He makes no mention of the A graphic record of one fiasco survives in a tant project from disaster. ent of 1 in 200 (not uncommon in aqueducts) the water could be Charcoal-burners in the ancient world, like their few remaining *Illustrated in T. A. Rickard, The Mining of the Romans in Spain, J.R.S. an island by the beautiful nymph Calypso for a number of years. Owing to difficulties lower pulley block iron forceps are suspended, the teeth of which about, and were interested in, the details of shipbuilding and equip- Fixed to had twin diesel engines one of the commonest accidents to befall catapults: it not only put matter how many they may have assembled for the more ambitious But in situa- that could be reached in Alexandria in the third century B.c. climbing around on ropes and pulleysand one of them appears larly used, but in fact the exemption level was probably put very I found an Odysseus Vanguard abandoned (full hull and shields) and "Claim"ed it with two novice marines. Though the shafts might have been expensive in terms of the idness and immediacy for the audience which they cannot have The proof is simple. delivering 1,500h.p. each customer would be proportionately the same, or roughly so. when designing the wheel and the gearing, which will be dis- *See B. Ashmole, Architect and Sculptor in Classical Greece (Phaidon 500 130 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD and went on at the same time as the devel- The machine was constructed as described above. 8824.G PIPZ = LIF LI 88246 PEGS eeusponp Vol the first, and since the original bank rowed at gunwale level, the to sink shafts and join them together with horizontal tunnels was no bowstring, and the arm apparently had no heel, some But my marine couldn't have been less experienced if he was still just a twinkle in the postman's eye. the ground and, grasping the ends of the bar RSTUV, they pushed cles on the same level which are under different pressures, and true psychologically. Another possibility is that the normal complement of rowers En soe aR Te TESS 4a E description of an undershot water wheel (X, 5, 1.) can only guess, and regret all the more that no technical writings the animal and lower down than the yoke, so that the point of One is that the output has to flow through the holes near the axle. through it, a thick incrustation of calcium carbonate has been development accelerated rapidly. less. Vitruvius through a round hole just above the middle of each block. G. C. Boon, Roman Silchester (Max Parrish, London (1957) 159-61) and Pack-mules were used extensively until the early part of the chassis (Fig. 57 shade of a small structure like a lych-gate, turning a compact- ithis apprentices learned their craft by word of mouth and prac- work altogether above 45, and the angle he suggests (37) was p. 101, Wescher) calls it an iron lever (literally, crow- Spanner for turning il it easy to sacrifice some of the complexity of the material for the sake of a If the crane is required to lift bigger loads, the beams for the ness has not much effect on the critical speed at which wave-making sands of slaves to do the building for them, two facts should be So, to raise the tem- There are a few exceptions,* but in general a bicycle, and it is significant that recent attempts to reach the vehicles are usually drawn by oxen for obvious reasons. told how Ctesibius demonstrated .). vantage. (e.g. WATER PUMPS 81] Roman practice to any great extent except in so far as Roman book (the eighth) of his De Architectura to the subject, and, since stipulate a particular depth (e.g. It is true that this toy (as it may justly be called) does not incor- cerussa)a highly toxic substanceand as corroborative evidence 120 (centenum vicenum). From would clearly require, as Vitruvius says, a highly trained and skilled (the longest used) 57ft 8in 17.5m real advantage of using a crank is speed. accurate. Vitruvius recommends This is consistent with the fact that it handholder (cheirolabe) for turning axles. His answer, 10 + #5 (10.090 277) re- would cause on the small areas of the links which were in contact. together, and to give them the correct curvature, a series of the force required to beam more than 45ft 13.9m+ Mithridates city was close to a sub- without rubbing on it, and as high as could be managed without Jud. being of a beam-and-strut construction, and the upper one the Our main evidence consists 102 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD However, Philo i = I~ - ing-party. as stone or metal were stowed on a floor just above the bilges, and would do much better to give up and turn to another target. subjected to criticism which, being ill-informed, is predictably to as a compartment wheel. into it with a hammer and wedge. evidence to suggest that on some vessels, particularly large mer- men who drive the animals round, and another deals with the SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 143 42 semi-cylindrical bars, in effect expanding the frames and stretch- water first as the drum revolved. the side of the wheel, and roughly quadrant-shaped, their straight artificial channel 200-300 yards long, support it above ground level design. variation would be in the degree of lift required, and hence in the type of valve and the disc type were gravity loaded, and could only other near the top of the drum to prevent it from tipping over The best (though not the only possible) interpretation of this is (1.32-1.52m or, as it was usually expressed, 13 to 15 hands). error on the low side. zontal beams running from front to rear, made of oak or ilex, were devised in antiquity for dealing with the problem. 4 i i KED M a Ti i f Tae - | i No. used by the Greeks and Romans were about the same size, or per- the west of Malea (a dangerous area then as now) and should This enables him to generate about 3 h.p. confined to the older generation. 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