speech, delivered in 80 s.c. (Pro Roscio Amerino Chapter 7) speaks Assembly revoked the decision by a small majority. Apr 21, 14:31, Post before the fourth century B.c. BIBLIOGRAPHY harnessed in this way to a plough. is fairly slow) it would in theory have delivered 42 / (94 gallons) projecting beyond the bow (called artemon in Greek) and a trian- writes clearly and fluently. Owing to budget It is usually called an auger, requires more than one man to handle it, its size and shape must The inlet valves, mounted Oxen harnessed to a By contrast, the evidence a small area spread at each end of the yard. This is the word used for into each of the facing edges exactly opposite each other (Fig. familiar pattern of the aqueduct (in Latin, arcuatzo) takes over. Digging a well is a long and laborious business, and to dig one They'll actually land them. These They consisted of the solid, and re-fitting the vessel. gests that they were tilted at such an angle that their contents did divided into three branches, and three reservoirs were built side cludes with a characteristically Roman tipcrude but practical. for some while before, and though he does not describe an over- maximum and minimum extension. *Altertumer von Pergamon (Berlin 18851937) X, 48-54, Plate 31. be made to serve as shock-absorbers, and take up some of the milling, the design being the same except that there is a gear- (7-22cm) depending on the size of the ship mortises were cut Total 7,250 over a long period; once a shallow groove had been formed, the The damage it takes is based on the skill of the marine. channels ran for much the greatest part of their length under- chains strong enough to cope with this order of load without The same error is repeated in the drawing of the Dolau Cothi Department, involved making working replicas of ancient machines $ used for the bars must be carefully checked. He tells how landing-parties, on not be used would the chain be preferred. sleeved, enabling the whole top part of the nozzle assembly to It would be very nice to know more details The lesser rate of flow given in the last paragraph (31 kept employed for a lot of the time (or so he would hope), it would Perhaps he never thought tendency of a floating body to assume a particular position, and to the original, simple frame without spring-holes. when on the River Moselle, written about the middle of the fourth cen- (centenaria) and no. Udaq SEY OLFT'E anyea au? In some places 24, p. 110. in a day. have been very much like those of their Greek predecessors. origin are obscure. After that, the target tubes IJK and LMN. slowly and carefully, or the spiritus will burst the pipes. together to form a weld. Homeric rowing ships had single banks of oars arranged sym- effectively eliminated by pre-aligning the catapult on a tripod and of the work. From the stands, dating from mid or late fifth century a.D. The spigots would have to be lined up with the centre these two designs were bonding agent in the making of hair rope. hand, they recaptured the damaged ships and towed them back The chances were that a stormy spell would set in, subjects in vase-paintings. But first, an important difference between all types of The long ship was slender, with a length-to- area and elsewhere. Pentekonter L = 85ft 6.5 knots 9.2 knots 12 knots spar supported by a rope running to it from the masthead. waterline TEL l they reached it, and emptying their contents into a conduit (Fig. Ephesus in the sixth century B.c. Fitted in this groove is a male (dovetail) of the same length, and His animals would nor- of replacement wooden axles (and, incidentally, the handing-in Even so, at the end of the Seiad Punic War (201 B.c.) It is not surprising, therefore, that Vitruvius devotes a whole The ancients, having no place cannot be established with certainty, but from the design perhaps 60-70 years after the events.) 9in (22-23cm) long, its internal diameter carefully measured, and bending backwards or sideways. matter how many they may have assembled for the more ambitious to see how Philo, who travelled around several of them, was on The figure for quinariae in Firstly, they are not then extended in a straight board) of those below them, did not have to be so far above them The ship is in Faulty Logic VII roughly 310 KM from the gate leading to HOP space. For Si Li i ti PEN It's now based on the target and attacker's relative hull health, target and attacker's ship class difference, and target's morale skill. the abdominal muscles as well as the leg muscles; the treadmill to human limitations. University of Reading ment, and Exekias, though he was illustrating a fantasy scene from in the winter months (October-March), which makes storage systems on the whole tended to be either all open or all closed, Extension Greek onesthe repeater, the wedge, the bronze-spring and the ably have been more practical to transfer the load to pack animals (e.g. This arrangement or thinker, they tended as a matter of course to attribute to him all Minor, but must mean something like wind-fan. A Fagin stings glimpse of ancient cultures; it is an excellent introduction : ; Pi Ri na ie To do this properly would require a lot of skill Fig. gall or 140//sec), if delivered to an overshot wheel of 7ft Take his figures for the no. to the millstones) was larger than the vertical one on the weapon to be tilted up or down and to swing sideways into any In all these documents the pump is called simply Hist. Frontinus notes that the position of the nozzle This is why Vitruvius says that the 126 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Below the opposite end NO is placed an iron lever PQ, piv- The one other essential is the valve tons, and also a most formidable array of weaponry and a contin- did, but (probably) not far from its mid-point. (in Greek keleusts, the giver-of-orders), the ships commander applications in other fields (see p. 73). witty parody of the first. together by another strap (martingale) between the legs. Vitruvius then digresses on the types of soil in which water can As a result, his book is a fine piece of work, carried, or whether they were the ships bilge-pumps. MAN-POWER 1). designed a stone-thrower with a diostra about 1ft (V, 206d-209b). no doubt, to the fact that it was under waterand the carved-out the longitudinal lines. wheel have been found, but the entire structure, including all the other devices which Hero describes. drums) on it. ily to be assumed. more or accurate alignment of the slider and trough. the boom turned, it could be swung around over a limited arc extreme, a joint project between the Classics and Engineering for such purposes as pumping untreated sewage, or clearing the time, it is explicitly stated that one man was able to do all the no other suitable power source available. especially at the points where they were parallel to the grain. Not all kinds handspikes at each end of the windlass. the winter, it would seem reasonable to keep about half the fleet Hence the pump is sometimes referred spring (in Greek, euthytonos) from its general appearance (it should darkness, and on a minor road, this was quite good going. a sloping conduit (or rather, a miniature aqueduct). it) is that the under-belts were heavy cables, running along the Ancient water-engineers, especially the Romans, have been bench, and would be totally unacquainted with the sliding seats of hole at its base of fixed diameter, through which the water ran With a quintuple-haul block (see on a windlass. It seems rather incredible, however, that from friction in the axle bearings and the paddle effect of the Their capital city was S NI Relative wind ~15 knots For a and Macedonia. However, it may well be that for practical reasons These were attached at one end tion sees and recognizes as its immediate requirements. tioneven if these had to be met from a well rather deeper than apparatus was the attachment between the lower pulley block mast was hoisted up into position and held there by two ropes the other two, one of horn on the inside of the arc, which was would still have made it in just over 24 hours. 36 The fact that neither Vitruvius nor 800 | weapon, it seems almost certain that it was not known to the When the Greek philosophers first began to enquire into the in this context it refers to the stub or spigot on which a swivel- as doubtful and the rest of the year definitely out, except for history were they really a seafaring people. This may well have been the method used to alter A pul- of changing from one tack to another is hard work, and involves a . muscle-fibre, or tendon, or a muscle with its tendons taken as a fall easy victims when they thought they were safe. In the work was done by man-power or animal power, and the kind of divided the day, measured from sunrise to sunset, into 12 equal stretched. particularly the Roman, tended to rely on bigger, slower vessels, animals were not used in mill- At least one of the abandoned ships in the game has been confirmed as a fairly fixed spawn - The Odysseus drifting along in the "northwestern" area of Faulty Logic . ble, and if the defenders catapults had been skilfully positioned, major problem. sion. would have to be rotated about 27 times which, unless the tread- and a portion of the tunnel became flooded, it would be much days. the suggestion that the whole machine was an unus- more adaptable in every way than a vehicle or pack animal. opposite ends of a capstan-pole on a vertical axle. and went on at the same time as the devel- to form an elliptical leaf spring (Fig. imagery used by Greek poets. after some years on the beaches of Troy the timbers of the ships guilty of this in speaking of Archimedes, and the much-quoted Methods of steering. Such an say 90,000-100,000 tons. replaced by the stiff collar, which did not ride up onto the neck, The M.T-B. Our ancient Greek would be used to rowing from a simple fixed out with water. Clearly, we are dealing to the history of technology; it could serve as a model of research tech- | being held in position there by rings sewn on to the sail. the ground and, grasping the ends of the bar RSTUV, they pushed the competence of ancient metal-workers, and bring sharply into water. clear by the Homeric account and from archaeological evidence. gent of over 200 marines, since Hiero presumably wished to make Thus there is evidence for a variety It was a jar of fixed capacity with a Though Vitruvius does on Fig. points out (Chapter 61) that when sinew-rope is under tension Hem helpful in giving prompt and expert answers to my questions on by the area below the curve, between the vertical lines representing Added options to change capital ship penalty and penalty for ships not flown by the player. mill, with rigid wooden vanes, was simply not thought of in this as granaries had access paths and doorways which were almost through each plank and at each end of the tenon, and round be obtained by moving forwards or backwards. 21). Romans, and in the Middle East until quite recent times, belonged make extraordinary mistakes on technical matters, such as the in The Clouds. (2.75m) long and 33in (nearly 9 cm) in diameter at its thickest the crew would be in the water, the ship awash and useless. A very telling piece of evidence The Acharnians, named from what was then a small village in char- less efficient than the overshot, there was no choice. This chapter began by contrasting the speed and effectiveness and sail it single-handed) may have had a fixed mast, but the larger Heros machine, in which wind power is used to blow an organ, Naturally, if they were required to cross rough or hilly ter- Vitruvius calls them modioli quadrati (rec- and leaky, but they would also suffer from that scourge of wooden 24 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 46 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD It would be impossible to irrigate more than By comparison with the trireme Second Punic War. All rights reserved. ships was the steering mechanism. purify them by repeated smelting, and the alloy was cast in the all the ancient writers is that those portions of the machine, par- There is no a bicycle, and it is significant that recent attempts to reach the The reservoir on one side supplied the public baths, forage crops if he owned any land, or renting grazing land, or and used boarding techniques in preference to ramming, which under-plate (in Greek, hypothema) fixed on the frame, with the death and the women and children sold into slavery, and a trireme Faulty Logic Odysseus Changed. In very early times they were held together by ropes the weapon, blaze away indiscriminately, and waste ammunition. very simply, it generates power by slowing the water down. Attention this system is full of mine fields. inlet valve at one end, the outlet pipe at the other, and the outlet the greater part of 100 years. rather excessive provision of shafts, and a number of explanations inadequate, even judged by modern standards. 7. use for the various parts, tunnels are few and far between, for obvious reasons. Dr. Marsden suggested weld- but Vitruvius and Frontinus give us a picture of what they must ops about the same power. more than one pair. this is certainly not the impression one gets from eye-witness We might expect some other applications, but the only evi- X4 Foundations, Split Vendetta, Cradle of Humanity map and Tides of Avarice. treatise on Airs, Waters and Placesnamely, that freezing likewise of oxen. and although most of the crew would by then have jumped or tudinal lines at one end of the shaft. relative speed or Froudes number is given the symbol and From this and from other evidence we can appreciate that This may also account for the fact that no me | | distance backwards and forwards or up and down, and when they 100that is, Teleport . The ropes passed through these grooves and were prevented from E Water-mill gears with toothed wheels. SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 149 Accord- eastwards, had gone off alignment to the right (i.e. if at all, than an ordinary hand-bow, but rather suffertoo suff, altered, in view of the fact that the whole machine would have to If the wind is not dead ahead, the tacks become asymmetrical is obscure. remains of which were found in another part of the Rio Tinto It is true that later European mills had the opposite following wind by the braces described below. It may be significant that no figures are given for (V 204 cd) the whole account has always been interpreted as re- generally uses a different word. (or rather, the lack of it) does not help to decide the question. ing into parallel launders, there would be a tendency for turbu- Contents for cutting woodeven more easily than wood, so they say. One was the so-called bench of Hippocratesa plinth with a The sur- it off its fixing at the front. In addition to these complica- in the region of 1201b (54kg) in its panniers, and a large one could found to be ideal where traction was required, of low power but ening-out of the crimp, while that on the linear portion is elastic (a) Stub'axle this range ward side was let out so that the wind carried it forward of the 22 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD andria. point. tion of the cross-section area of a special nozzle which regulated A Greek epigram in the Palatine Anthol- this could be speeded up by extra men, up to four if there were Then vertical frames are attached at The same considerations apply to donkeys, but the figures for If, however, the grain ran parallel to AC 20-21. certain, but such evidence as we have suggests that it was not (according to him) the lead sheet ought to be cast, or cast and 7 "> watermens no. planks in the form of two parallel discs, joined together by beached, or in acalm when it was being rowed. the mules back. others which the screw pump does not have to the same extent. a few men to prepare and serve the food, a spare crew for one less expensive, but very much more difficult to construct, requiring for them to develop such rockets. of soil on top. we have a few scraps of evidence from Biton. made it impossible for triremes to stay at sea for long periods rather more efficient than the screw. been satisfactorily explained, is omitted from this translation.) because the men near the inner end can only move over a limited Hellenistic age ever succeed in making bows on that scale? 32) tells of a curiously modern-sounding swindle which in- as we have tells us the average speed over quite a long voyage In another, arrangements are made for supplying water to the 118 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 25). Both these methods of mounting are in use The chain-drive deserves special mention, as it has possible *The Greek dactyl was very nearly inch (0.76 in) or 19.3 mm. To make a conventional steam 20- digit by the homely name of belly-shooter (in Greek, gastraphetes) for Of cruder construction, but on a more impressive scale, is a The space needed for the oxen to move around would be The tax (You pays the money to me, guv nor, and I squares it up at 47). Until late antiquity (prob- above one anotherthe top bank level with the raised deck, the 12A), and But the aquarii used a was sent out immediately to try to catch up with the first and coun- chaff, wine-press refuse, etc. from the value of his evidence on technical matters. It could, of course, be tionate increase in output. lists six in particular which will only grow in consistently damp available the cranes, winches and tackle required for this, but if it great advantage over horses and mules in the matter of feeding voyages, but for maximum performance they were normally re- THE shortness of this chapter by comparison with the preceding when lifted. saw back and forth? ently a little W of NW, and sailed roughly NNE, sighting Acamas If they snapped (this occurrence Up to the no. The wheels were of three types, solid, made from planks in his hand. Haterii is almost exactly in accordance with Vitruvius description. IN THE o machine acts directly on the iron rod, and pulls it against the The reasons are obvious; to bore the cylinder these two types of catapult. to the load, up again and around the lower pulley of the upper came very near to this was a jumping ball (Pneumatica I, 6), in I found an Odysseus Vanguard abandoned (full hull and shields) and "Claim"ed it with two novice marines. Using such a tool, there were obvi- measurement is its diameter, which is taken to be the same as that Fig. 12 choes = | amphoreus metretes 8 gall 5.12 pt 39.251 Since it For the sake of brevity, let us call this a no. in the same shape, but with grooves in its top rim in which the takes the value of m as # (3.1428571), which is about 0.04% higher catapults were classified in terms of the missile they were designed = 1000, and D = 11 dactyls. The third development was the bronze-spring catapult, said to about water supply, military engines, and transportation with unfailing when raising water from a muddy ditch or canal. It rises to a maximum height of 164ft (50m) above Get 1 marine. y = $ The disadvantages of the multiple-pulley system lie in the loss mergi i MTG al iy a aia ant annA missile weight M and that of the first machine, M (10 minas). and nineteenth centuries. requiring some skill. ostensibly in their own character, but really in the poet's: Hist. either. Also, this The chains were long Early Greek ship We went through another minefield but got out without any damage. It is surely not a coincidence that the the modern Hagios Georghios. two spring-frames separate, and used an array of planks and struts called protono: (front-stretchers) running from the mast-head to an island by the beautiful nymph Calypso for a number of years. 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