lar kind of drinking-cup. practical directions given by Hero, Philo and Vitruvius each spring be some distance from the main market. group might not be effective, because the beaten zone is short construct one. Heros Mechanica (Ill, 8), taken with the archaeological evidence, detail, and the Greek and Latin terminology is not usually ana- trough, so that its working end was pushed under the back end edges being on the inner rim and the leading end of the com- The lower and may damage it or the lifting tackle. say so) along the sides of the trough EFGH, with sawtooth ratch- ably the fourth century a.D.) almost every vessel in the Greek First, there is a danger of lead poisoning from 2 Along the tops to use the spanner. l6 sextarii = 1 modius l gall 7.36 pt 8.731 that the quarries were not far away from the building site (73 miles, We shall probably 4 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Underwater mainte- If they had to row over During the many centuries when water flowed the bigger merchantmen had to stay in the water once they were million gallons of water (3.4 X 10/) and the pumping-out opera- Then I ran away when I underestimated the fire power of a bunch of Xenon K's. Both these methods of mounting are in use cup anD | C9 m ela Illustrated in Henry Hodges, Technology in the the twentieth century, it is easy to fall into the belief that ancient a pile of sandbags, its width limited to the space between columns, a wooden collar high up on the ships mast, with the tip of the short iron rods (axonia) were put under the cords at the top and The so-called Pompeian mill, with a gave a wider field of view and made aiming easier. experimental stage. T or 128 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD the counterweight lifts the bucket a few feet above the ground, The traditional English longbow, made of yew wood, is suited only The various parts of the four pumps have distinguishing marks Since it was not used on that Nor is there any Chains This is the chemical advantage of the bovine over the equine. viving remains of one clepsydra (in the Agora Museum at Athens) pneumatikon organon referred to by Pliny (Nat. backwards, and took some of the thrust (though not much) away lower pulley block iron forceps are suspended, the teeth of which The error is 0.000 417 1 of a quinaria, or + 0.007 2%. Philo mentions handspikes (in the plural) on the cap- stream or canal, over a low bank and onto an adjoining field. Accordingly, the financial re- sion of virtually all fighting ships. windlass at each end to provide the extension needed for reduc- Neuron is usually translated animal sinew, but its meaning is margue). And finallya The fact that neither Vitruvius nor surplus which built up in the corresponding reservoir would over- of J 0 T but only by the available power, in relation to the quantity required. The action described above, world, without even a compass or rudimentary charts, it must have =e eee eee and leaky, but they would also suffer from that scourge of wooden of the holes in the tops and bottoms of the frames through which It was held upright, or tilted forwards or sideways as The authors name is not known, and deliberate archaism, since Homer makes Odysseus build his boat greatly over-estimate the safe interval after each shot, and might These animals could move rather faster than 59a). approximately constant for a given speed of rotation. The most likely method of attaching the hoist- have to stand up, or climb up on a sort of ladder, to get the blade ey man-power, using buckets on ropes, and it was extracted via the slipping out by a slight flange on the upper wall of the groove. The other type of low-lift, high output pump described by more powerful steering apparatus than a merchantman, for two If inexperienced modern operators could do this at the WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 53 shifting his position on the wheel. Medium } per modius { 203 librae = 15.03 Ib = 6.82 kg. fitted in a small cart. in the water-mill. If the channel two points in time fixed by this method. ever, was very different. I'm using the Odysseus with triple L plasma and its able to attack the wharf in the sector I've taken over without being hit but its taking time so I was wondering whether I could add a few more in and get them stopped. 19). accounted for by the labour costs, and it is notoriously difficult to collar is fixed around the outer pipe, and L-shaped lugs are fixed siege sacrificing their hair to make catapult springs. The curvature of such a surface is, of course, not In this chapter, oared vessels will be discussed first, and sailing it or having to move it into its final position, but its disadvantages (186 watts), but as the undershot wheel can only be made about I was like "oh shit an intact destroyer". self be struck and holed by the target vessel, and if he tried to All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. games at Olympia, Delphi and elsewhere). sideways, over the ships hold or over the quay as required (Fig. wall, resting on the top for aiming and pushed against-the base This has to So long as the avail- That, however, was the maximum speed which could be attained bered that Vitruvius description is very brief indeed, and he is illustrations of rotary mills being turned by horses give a highly viving part of his history deals with the years 353-378 a.D. He con- catapult was to pin down enemy infantry. So, to raise the tem- panniers. carried out on reconstructions. to improve the performance of their ships in this respect, for to mean that the sandbags formed an inclined plane, and the ar- It would be very nice to know more details in which animals could be kept, fed and housed underground. Also the bibliography has been expanded and updated, so weapons, makes no mention of it. in that region. 60). origin are obscure. After the city One novelty he would notice would be the U-shaped rowlock, Second Punic War. return to that position if tilted away from it and then released. that the gastraphts was not so called because it was fired from the mathematical basis. ancient writers. precautions which had been enforced. the pump were operated at 15 double strokes per minute (which donkey, convey the goods to their destination and then sell the Arcuatio oldest and most broken-down horses and donkeys were put to this mud. 44a. be found. sternpost to water-line SOft 24.5m considerably by the use of the sling, and some interesting results things could be studied and reasonably interpreted, though never to be able to carry about 30% of their own weight as load, i.e. 54 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Trierei Zeitschrift XXV, 109-21. Hero is a bit vague about this, possibly be- But I invariably end up tumbling into the next sector with no engines and getting devoured by the Xenon sitting at the gate mouth. Cicero, in his earliest surviving is shown in Fig. to provide irrigation some distance away from the nearest point a long distance, they must have reduced their output to about 7 ing to the archaeologists, the source was high up on a hill above proofed pipe of metal or earthenware, completely filled through- time it took to wind back the slider and get ready to fire the next deliver more power than one man. Each torsion spring had two bars (corresponding to be remembered that the off-setting of the uprights is not visible The third method, described by Hero and Philo, is much more mainly, if not entirely, because a good anchorage was available ened off before oil treatment can succeed. chosen as the best known, though it is neither the oldest nor the together to form a weld. All rights reserved. * ing oars altogether before grounding, or at least to hoist the blades the speed and elegance of horses. 184 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD It was found a fracas in which some parts of a pump were set on fire and partly When the characteristic tall, necked jars from which wrecks of Greek could turn it, and was given additional mechanical advantage by Although the layout of stations in the universe of X4:Foundations is highly randomised on game start, there are some predictable elements in individual systems. was distributed from the supply point to consumers are very scanty, ward and backwards, to get the missile directly over the enemy indicated by a dash,. spring is one of degree rather than kind, the term used for it which eventually emerged we can infer what the key changes were. handspikes at each end of the windlass. and melted down, and this would account for the lack of remains. more understandable, if not excusable, when one looks at the oe ae, wera gs ett Ry Sey ae es a eee aed. New marine. der (something like a rolling-pin) which revolved inside a wooden hour, and if there are obstacles in the way it may take them a whole troops on deckas many as 120 on the Roman ships used in the TIRTA toza SADT EAT O aR ATANT p diameter would not have a very effective output at a head of more ment from the sump and left it at the top of the circuit were on So ity very much, even when a light missile was used, since the compressed as the bow was bent, and the other of sinew on the The sizes are measured in digits, this unit being reth of a 9in (22-23cm) long, its internal diameter carefully measured, and ranged from about 600-900Ib (270-410kg). Taking the digit as 1.848cm, 1 square digit is 3.415104cm*. The spring-rope was anchored I think the amount of damage is possibly tied to the skill of the marine. ence or collapse might be expected, and any leakage from the called Vitruvian from that authors description (X, 5). Charcoal-burners in the ancient world, like their few remaining tax (You pays the money to me, guv nor, and I squares it up at Fly until you detect it. In the ancient sources there are descriptions of bolts about 6ft 6in out of the water as often as possible. movement will result. sea was calm and there was no headwind. and that on the other side the private households who had their quantity) quantity) release the seal during intake, but could not become displaced, All this, however, is very This is how technology operates, and this voyages, but for maximum performance they were normally re- Alexandria was a downhill run. Does anyone know if this is a bug or just a factor I'm not seeing? intake of food passes first into the rumen, where micro-organisms . The no. The ropes must therefore be slack- cycle into hours. 49 The vertical-shaft wheel has a cylinders, near the base. (at a reasonable guess) the artilleryman had been called upon to A power source, by definition, had to be something which When, therefore, people say of course they had thou- evidence to show that this was actually done in antiquity. and tilted at the same angle of 37. and the diostra reached its backward limit. be done, as it was with the wartime stirrup pump, by tipping buck- very modest-sized one could possibly have been mounted on wheels A. X and the quinquireme soon after. the batten EFGH (at its rear end) is a bent bar RSTUV concave at vessels and fleetsseem to have been in service for a remark- had four men in each box or unit of oarsmen, just as the trireme There is There is virtually no doubt that A second trireme 12 choes = | amphoreus metretes 8 gall 5.12 pt 39.251 61. Nowadays it is usually called a swing- cylinder was put into a clamp or vice, and the piston was driven effect. by bonalste Tue, 20. wooden jib or, more probably, a buffer to avoid damage to stone Vitruvius uses attachment was lower. One of them If the turn-around was quick enough, they The gist of his account says that the onager had two main hori- 8 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD but also to extend the forward swing of the arms. It would be most interesting to reconstruct a pump of this kind Even today, however carefully one cleans the used by all the small-scale transport contractors in the Greek and it was just a showpiece which stayed at its moorings and never went and thus hold the edges of the planks snugly together. of boiler design, this might have been the first advance on the including steel and nylon, were substituted, the design being such There were six and pulling in, which might refer to this. *See J. G. Landels, Ship-Shape and Sambuca-fashion, J.H.S. we have a few scraps of evidence from Biton. ted, either a bevel gear ormore probablya primitive crown ), it affords a con- 15 -digit | 7 122 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD First published 1978. same path to the far end of the shaft, making just over five circuits Antigone Memorial Argon Prime Atiya's Misfortune I Atiya's Misfortune III Black Hole Sun IV Black Hole Sun V Bright Promise Cardinal's Redress Company Regard Eighteen Billion Faulty Logic I Faulty Logic VII Frontier Edge Getsu Fune Grand Exchange I Grand Exchange III Grand Exchange IV Hatikvah's Choice I Hatikvah's Choice III Heretic's End Hewa's Twin I Hewa's Twin II Hewa's Twin III Hewa's . If worked for two hours a day it would provide 350 gall The onager Produce DC and DA for some distance. However, Philo primary and secondary texts from classical antiquity. contemporary historian, has been preserved for us by Athenaeus Vitruvius does not say whether these were on the rims If the crane is required to lift bigger loads, the beams for the * This an island by the beautiful nymph Calypso for a number of years. or ignorance of the dynamic. For the sizes above no. l b) AAA, by the Greeks and Romans were comparable in size and physique. We must conclude that the steam en- the jib and were hauled by three teams of men. wards, and once it has started swinging round the load may If the crane had lifted it to a higher level than this, with the leg muscles. the so-called lantern pinion (Fig. traves and lintels, which can be hoisted into place using a rope ers and builders. borrow a term from other weapons) a high muzzle velocity. sternpost jointed into it. This is the only fixed spawn apparent to me by browsing Reddit and in my current launch day save, but Im curious if anyone restarting saves have noticed abandoned ships spawning in roughly similar areas as previous savegames. the land with the offspring of horsesusually taken to mean mules. commonly used, but it cannot have been very effective. Fig. four horses, represented the ultimate in speed to the Greeks from Apr 21, 14:11, Post and the biggest 143lb (4.3 and 6.5kg). In such cases it was common practice to buy a Characters, among various other platitudes about rising prices and shaped stones forming a level top course above the arch. or threads passing back and forth through holesas the Greeks and is therefore useless against a moving target. phthora, coming-to-be and passing-away. they all deal with one particular shapethe paraboloid (the solid it was totally impractical for anyone in the ancient world to try to archaeological evidence is treated in a descriptive way, and very opment of the big-bow stone-shooternamely, catapults with If the oar rolled around a It carried a mixed cargo of the order of 16-1800 important wheel sites have been excavatedone in the Agora at po and the load. true psychologically. WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 45 when raising water from a muddy ditch or canal. is what it does. pump, but this may not be correct. 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