rather than a very slow rate of sailing, but even so, a very slight be shifted round. So far, it has been assumed that one point (1115) into the tional evidence and from the remains of shipyards in the Peiraeus Hiero II of Syracuse and was designed by Archimedes. METHODS OF ESTIMATING THE MAXIMUM here. Hero tells us (Bel. But there is one important qualification waterclock, called a clepsydra. The answer to the problem came when the designers realized 354-6 and Plate VII. The maximum for such purposes as pumping untreated sewage, or clearing Phase 5: Odysseus repaired and ready to go. retical sciences (such as geometry and astronomy) and looked while under load. pin I. with small blocks as part of an ashlar wall, crowbars could be ment, and Exekias, though he was illustrating a fantasy scene from Catapults Suppose the rotor to be nearly 8ft (2.4m) in length, There was at least one (centenaria) and no. the end Q and pull on the lever in the direction of NO, then the the jib is raised too near the vertical, the load strikes against it, The supply pipe was attached to the ery were apparently not explored until the early part of the first 8 2 digits, and so the shafts would serve to release pockets of air-pressure which ends facing outwards, and the third (flat) bar was then pushed { bank cruising ~4H.P. The frame was ment, the writer excuses himself for not fulfilling an irrigation the original, simple frame without spring-holes. around 12ft wide (3.5m) and 4in (10cm) average depth in Kahle/Austin Foundation produced corn supplies from the Western parts of the empire (nearly 3000 watts), and an actual output of ciples. rim passing through the water in the sump, this brought the effi- tainly the cylinders. numbers, but what could the ancient artificers do when M = 15, pivoted at the centre, might have been balanced with some sort of as a bunch in one hand, so clearly, it did not require much of a quite suddenly to zero. Biton was constructed in precisely this way. must have had a very crowded and uncomfortable trip. He weight of the chains was not a problem in the operation of the 40 smelting furnaces. Roman numerals. halves, with a leather or hair-cloth sling at the centre, in which Then things went disastrously wrong. handspikes at each end of the windlass. The resistance on such a hull as wards around Cape St. Andrew and westwards between Cyprus Vitruvius describes, as though for her help and encouragement. *see pp. forwards. carry a block of stone weighing 2701b (122kg); the most it could the tunnel, on the point of giving up the whole thing. used by naval commanders as flagships. 43 SINCE the Roman contribution to technology, though consider- be preferred. two pieces of evidencea passage from Homers Odyssey (V, In a well, for considerablea circle of 10ft (3m) diameter at the very least. 208 of body, those whose density is (a) equal to, (b) less than, (c) greater round shafts mounted in a crude kind of bearing, in which they truly known. may be helpful to list a number of limitations imposed on fighting the simple fact that muscle-fibre is edible, and would have gone distanceto the delivery point, and at least some storage Capacity is abundant evidence in the form of buildings erected by means would make a marked difference to the distance travelled and the isted? FE = EG). TEN VAC Ged LL only for small boats, and Ostia, at the river mouth, was quite 44. out round at the quarry) as a roller, by constructing a wooden of curve, and for the solid which it generates. But the more natural meaning of According to Herodotus sions on the best course. Why should this E S? device instead of the archers fingers. able to supply some extra customers illicitly, pocketing the water into it with a hammer and wedge. oarsmen of the top bank would either have to use extra long i2 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD writer wishes to indicate that something went to the bottom, he helpful in giving prompt and expert answers to my questions on About twenty years was quite normal for a trireme, The design of the crane illustrated on the monument of the . upright all the way up to the axle, tipping over automatically as And others knead the barley-cake; of references in speeches (written for private lawsuits) to the usual raj ss E We have, therefore, the rather strange fact that the Greeks and each thrust would otherwise be too short to allow the piston to It is clearly recognized that if the gradient of an aque- a curious conflict in the evidence. One is left with great admiration for the mechanical ingenuity of the | the construction of a basic steam engine. viving part of his history deals with the years 353-378 a.D. Nor is there any have been quite impractical. Some scholars have taken this Vitruvius description of the first type of crane is as follows. could turn it, and was given additional mechanical advantage by molten lead on to the join, it was probably not very strong or en- . They were reckoned level. timber-clamps (in Greek dryochoi) were fixed around the keel felloes, so they did not easily sink into the ground. tilted up or down, and swivelled round in any direction about the extravagance of the rich, he may be right. hill, down again 130ft (40m) into another valley, and then up again Filled which eventually emerged we can infer what the key changes were. (V 204 cd) the whole account has always been interpreted as re- It is true that this toy (as it may justly be called) does not incor- sources that Archimedes devised a practical method of using them expensive (as in the modern petrol engine) efficiency is the first At intervals of 39in Though very simple, the bow is a highly efficient device which At the start of the next DME, ALC One is that the work-force used on crew to work it successfully. that war, who shows obvious interest in siege-engines and unusual gave out, on hay and chaff. The designer of the catapult, since he was expound- are driven round by the current in the river. Their earliest attempt (according to Hero, and there is no reason In illustrations through- I Hewa's Twin II Company Regard Scale Plate Green I Scale Plate Green VII Pious Mists II Sacred Relic Holy Vision Faulty Logic I Faulty Logic VII Atiya's Misfortune I Atiya's Misfortune III The Void Antigone Memorial Hatikvah's Choice I Hatikvah's Choice III . NOTE: Component removal is still done upon claim. F A D The best that Hero could find Segovia in central Spain, and is still used for part of the towns Light 20 librae = 14.4 lb = 6.55 kg. Height from tip of extravagant of materials and labour, since it would have to be built warships were absurdly slow and clumsy. 229 mae? the arms up before they reached the frame, it would have to standards in use) was just under 1 Ib (0.96 lb) or 436 g. One talent The ships then either capsized, or listed badly, or there they ran vertically in parallel lines up the front of the sail, was Over, oxen could serve as food. them. lass and quintuple-pulley system are not powerful enough to raise this represents a compendium of the theoretical knowledge and The ship of state, with a political tunnels are few and far between, for obvious reasons. The vertical-shaft wheel has a pneumaticare all described by Philo. should be quite obvious, but is all too often forgotten. ing oars altogether before grounding, or at least to hoist the blades Speed knots how they could pass through the loading-cylinder or lie flat in the It was a craft and the biggest 143lb (4.3 and 6.5kg). it or having to move it into its final position, but its disadvantages 64 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD it, larch particularly so, according to Pliny (Nat. afterwards. SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 145 nal measurements being about 7 X 5in (18 X 13cm). points out that if there is a sharp bend between a vertical or Assuming the modest speed of 9 knots, each time, or how much of its original woodwork would have been it went through the water was obviously greater, but that would If when the windmill had come into general use. From remote antiquity there has been a contrast between the work- each compartment at the end which was to enter and leave the the same, turning northwards. Other ratings 400 CALIFORNIA PRESS Hist. construct one. This technique is cal knowledge by which to improve the fuel. true, we shall be led to a conclusion which is contrary to our The ultimate in these battle-ships came check on a few of his figures, chosen at random, gives an indica- tween there and the southern tip of Lesbos, and a six-hour stint by around its rim, and its axle mounted at such a height as to allow tempted to assume that Vitruvius is talking about a gaff, such as suitable timber on her island. Later navies, where to mean gutter-tiles, and interpret the passage as referring scoop up about 11 gall (502) of water, giving an output of about 88 was known professionally as The Clepsydra because, in order to improvement in tacking performance would have shortened such when lifted. The same might be said of were enclosed in rectangular stone blocks, the pipes passing The lengths information is in itself surprising. for a trireme, as shown in Fig. not exactly, as the square of the velocity. tendons are shorter. these machines, and perhaps reservoirs (stagna) to be kept filled. own mains supply, and who paid a water-tax (vectigal) the proceeds would be appropriate for housing the joints in an earthenware Either one of the lifting devices described in when at rest, was just above the diostra. very specialized skills. left, anti-clockwise for the top right, and so on. in small groups, keeping to the dead ground as much as possi- tion to keeping the oar up off the gunwale, it kept it in position A span Apriland get to Alexandria by early May. sources to careeningthe technique of tilting ships over to a This was certainly the arrangement at the public water supply engine on a winter morning this is a much less efficient and much W/M x 100, where D is The compressibility and elasticity of air had been known and and might have been improved in the light of experience. show that their skill was by no means negligible. cleaned out at regular intervals they were often built in pairs), ranged from about 600-900Ib (270-410kg). even if they could be turned, they would gouge out the wood, at the rear of the machine and thereby speed up the loading The potential power output in the whole machine. this was to case-harden them. Privacy Policy. A wooden arm was thrust into the the aqueduct passed over a river, the pillars standing in the river Aristotle (in this series) Chatto & Windus, London 1973, fig. tedious, irksome job which nobody would do from choice. tion sees and recognizes as its immediate requirements. Then it continues along the mythology, has taken care to draw the vessel correctly down to catapults is the history of the engineers attempts to overcome (7-22cm) depending on the size of the ship mortises were cut derived from such lists. (This is the scru- matter how many they may have assembled for the more ambitious 138 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Castalian spring much-watery. ice, be does not mention the pollution effect. perspective is hopelessly bad, and the buildings are lumped automatic water-level control in the water-clock (discussed below), keeps the sheets taut and refuses to slacken them in a squall will 26). YES! Horses that love the guiding reins, necessary adjustments for men of different weights working the and reported by his informants, of the pneumatic spring. it could be safely berthed, and was there presented to King Ptolemy gerous to the crew, as the broken portion flailed across in front of Thus the on rocky paths or on the edges of steep slopes. The best are the hardest and most close- obvious difference lay in the fact that the straight-spring was (penny-valve an odd choice of name, as it would belong much of posts can be laid (by optical sighting) up over the hill, and So, to raise the tem- soilbullrush, wild osier, alder, withy, reeds and ivy. in central Italy, and a speculative reconstruction can be seen in 5. water power available on the site at all, let alone near enough to and on long ships they usually trail in the water at an angle of Faulty Logic sectors ! the batten EFGH (at its rear end) is a bent bar RSTUV concave at Hist. weapon could be improved was simply by increasing the size and If Homeric rowing ships had single banks of oars arranged sym- 86 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD spring diameter suitable for M (11 dactyls) multiplied by this ratio gear is used and could be used instead, but the load is attached It would also eliminate the problem of power-drive rough approximation, may be taken as equal to the diameter of or two passengers) was the cisiwm. I'll also bring my courier ship to transfer crew. Philo notes the destructive effects of rust forming on the iron parts So, more understandable, if not excusable, when one looks at the of wood are suitable. ble to make this adjustment accurate to 73, or zs revolution of the Using one of these machines is not much less laborious than chapter (X, 5) Vitruvius describes how a water-wheel was used better than propellers, cannot be made more than about 75% If it * The mules skin is harder and tougher than a two points in time fixed by this method. This version is Hero's, mK bs a (assarium) Heros nozzle system. building. triremes were driven ashore and damagedquite seriously, it firing it on fixed lines. had been in harbour at Mitylene just long enough for the des- by magic or produce one which she has kept hidden. In theory, geometrically speaking, it Water had to be controlled under pressures ately light, high-velocity arrow-shooter. 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