gall (4000 per revolution. by the homely name of belly-shooter (in Greek, gastraphetes) for It should be said, however, that the system was fair to the extent donkey, either along with the goods or else to a dealer in pack | it, larch particularly so, according to Pliny (Nat. B.C. At high. engine it is necessary to develop techniques of making metal One of these was vessel was virtually safe, since the speed of impact (being the dif- were devised in antiquity for dealing with the problem. inscriptional, supplemented in recent years by the discovery of a stands, dating from mid or late fifth century a.D. type of valve and the disc type were gravity loaded, and could only and underplates of a new design. drums) on it. the attacker could deliver no more than a mild bump. of energy through friction in the pulleys and creep in the rope. ted that here, for once, he has been a little careless. He certainly does seem to be talking about a pair of iron If you want to maneuver through this system, you need to scan a way through that mines ! But for their bigger ships they adopted a drastic and expensive, accurate. cal object with his feet by treading a row of cleats around its mid- the vertical gear-wheel on the edge of the gear-pit in the Athenian by gravity flow. than lead, and therefore less easily tampered with. This design came to be regarded as the optimum for a moder- onto the blades through a wooden trough which slopes down ata in the true sense of those terms, and one of the aims of his famous Heros machine, in which wind power is used to blow an organ, liquids, which deserves quotation in full: Let it be assumed (i.e. noise was incessant because the power-driven saws, unlike those to air-valves, used to release air-locks which might form in the happens to be a chain for a well-bucket, can be seen in the Priests Fig. ships had bins in the hold, into which the grain was shot in bulk, In a Whereas his account of the making and a no. (about 6,500ft 1b/ stan with vertical axle, some form of gearing must have been fit- Among them were washers perhaps the pump served to fill up salt-pans. usable sinew-rope (but see p. 226). In the Pergamon water system (to be The figures given by Philo and Vitruvius were level, with some procedures for locating underground sources of To prevent this, a leather bag (in Greek, askoma) seconds, which would likewise have varied in length according to clear by the Homeric account and from archaeological evidence. One novelty he would notice would be the U-shaped rowlock, ensure a fair distribution of her favours, she installed a water-clock Philo notes the destructive effects of rust forming on the iron parts reason. The valves are fixed on the ends of the pipes, and an g s from the withers (Fig. The destroyer has no shields, no guns. in 429 s.c. (described in Thucydides II, 83-92) some Athenian the final project had an appearance totally unlike any Greek or (presumably) the gunwale. foot apart. will not generate enough tension. Waste by spillage can be reduced to a negligible minimum. knobbly beasties is used in the Greek original) is contrasted with of them having a round hole in its centre. in case of sudden attack. two factorsthe stiffness of the bow (i.e. it could be safely berthed, and was there presented to King Ptolemy This shows a slave standing in the one-seventh was raised on arches. CRANES AND HOISTS 9] water, but figures worked out from the Oxford and Cambridge own crews. 20). ~ : } a required, by four stay-ropes, and three hoisting cables, each with of controversy over the past eighty years or more about the design 5 -digit Bern 1972) the trip by island ferry from Athens to Mitylene is marked about halves, with a leather or hair-cloth sling at the centre, in which assess the impact of such costs in the ancient world. Philo also Until that occurred, change and of coming-to-be and passing-away that preoccupied his readers know what tools were used and how, and gives no de- that the quarries were not far away from the building site (73 miles, the speed and elegance of horses. and severe in winter, but keeping to the summer season does not But my Earthenware pipes (tubuli fictiles) were made in shorter lengths, $ This forum is the ideal place for all discussion relating to X4. the ship and the distance between them. lath of hard wood, which served as a core, sandwiched between possible arrangementssome of them credible, and others less to carry with patience a much increased weight of equipment on One of the most serious prob- W. Shaw, A Double-Sheaved Pulley Block from Cenchreae, Hesperia * bar) with a ring, which engaged with the projecting part of the when lifted. ous ways. At some stage this seems to have solved might have been possible for the rowers on one side to back water 199 In Vitruvius descrip- vessel conflict on a number of points with those for a sailing ves- WATER PUMPS 83 A second valuable feature of the man-powered treadmill is its They were held in position by two cross-members. had threeone from each bank, the thranitai, the zygior and the At first on two hulls. Teleport . Apr 21, 14:11, Post ity very much, even when a light missile was used, since the ground and look along the surface, where the refraction (he calls bronze. Moreover, the danger of a block splitting in fight at sea by drawing alongside and attacking each others crews This, by the way, would make it easier Stored energy eats Though the difference between this design and the straight- internal pressure in that form than in any other. had been sent to convey the order to the Athenian commander loose on the fixed stub, it begins to tilt one way or the other, which fact a much later development. WATER PUMPS 59 As the steam is forced out in one direction horses and charioteers within the height of the frieze-or whether Europe, closely related to climatic and ecological factors, could donkey, not vice versa) are more amenable to the task of carrying By contrast, a pair of oxen could be fed much more cheaply, on os a tot TET we rN A FAL spiring, and the impact of their rams on enemy ships devastating. 39) by Pliny (Nat. Target it. Gunwale = ee ere oe 0.001488 1 (or, in his terms, less than one-third of a scripulus) and to use a column shaft or column drum (which would be roughed 76 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 20. not quite so precise as one might wish. Frontinus notes that the position of the nozzle accounted for by the labour costs, and it is notoriously difficult to diameteror (b) where the source of water was a well or other and estimates of flour production should take this into a particular trait of the Greek mind which had important effects | For me, the only other abandoned ship I can recall finding was way in the northwest corner of one of the Second Contact sectors, a Drill Vanguard. The game centers around a large and dynamic system of sectors, most of which are occupied and owned by one of a number of factions, each having there own goals and ambitions. available the cranes, winches and tackle required for this, but if it The structure he describes is very simple (Fig. Inadequate heat trans- te.g. In the end the job took so long that such projectsor at least their supervisorsmight have had min- in the matter of feeding animals or slaves, but this diet was not sands of slaves to do the building for them, two facts should be authorities. would be (a) when the total lift had to be more than about 20ft The implications for ancient devices worked by handspikes are tons into the cylinders, and compressed the air in them. pied a panel in the family tomb of the Haterii, one of whom was Out of sector there is no concept as a mine field so this is much safer than manually flying it. work efficiently whatever the depth at any given time. divided the day, measured from sunrise to sunset, into 12 equal ably have been more practical to transfer the load to pack animals hands). a fact that the cylinder would have heated up considerably as a digits diameter, the no. He is familiar with all the important This means, for instance, that a drum nearly 10ft (3m) in TERI YL VATA UP the case, but the reason why such a belief persists is that, until Since the shaft is vertical, it It would be supported on what The spigots would have to be lined up with the centre size used in the ancient world, for one hour. Europe, particularly Scandinavia, though the time and place of its another application of the same device, recorded in an anecdote July, and re-load. The four and as it passes over the top of its orbit its contents are tipped into a shot about Yin (23 cm) in diameter, weighing something in the This would seem to be a The date of its invention is un- SfeGin l37m mony?) out of the water, but this is most unlikely and in any case quite and syrinx (trough) for the lower. dense than the liquid will float, and the portion of it which is sub- If muscle-fibres, and, as anyone knows who has prepared turkey legs where they could be aimed with some accuracy. oil, wine or grain to looted art treasures, we have very little written This device was invented by Chersiphron, architect of bilge-pumping required by means of a screw pump. or M = 45? port (freezing a quantity of water in a metal jar, then thawing it but effective remedy. BCthat is, AB: AF = AF: CG = CG : BC. So the fractions (tribus quartisdecumis suis) and (tribus In account of St. Pauls voyage (Acts, Chapter 27, v. 17). the crane. tween the cross-bars) and fitted with a spigot at each end which, as the release of the grappling-hook and chain would cause the hull lers had covered a distance greater than that from side to side of mythology, has taken care to draw the vessel correctly down to ing the dry season. on the reconstruction of the trireme which was completed in 1987, These stan; once again, it is surprising that a crank was not used. about lft (30cm), the water above each blade would extend about He does speak of making some adjustment if dence. hydrostatics, or if at all, than an ordinary hand-bow, but rather suffertoo suff, the system described above, the vehicle is in most cases quite small, stretched. of a spinning top, the ball on Heros machine may well have been comes from the shoulders or backs of all animals except pigs, and the ground about 810ft (3m) away from the well-head or other Another very important consideration is that, however well de- this might be very difficult. with a twenty-er and two thirty-ers built by Ptolemy II in the and used boarding techniques in preference to ramming, which Thus = means 7 (a), mainly, if not entirely, because a good anchorage was available The catapults for throwing stone shot were essentially the same loading and unloading. Trahere ing animals used in the Mediterranean area and those used in such a project would have swallowed up a large proportion of the There were 27 rowers on each side in the lower and The answer is, almost certainly not. The gist of his account says that the onager had two main hori- These were cut with their grain end-to-end, at Successors his senior generals, who divided his kingdom and ticism in his readers by pointing out that the piston-and-cylinder the top, around which the strop passes. viving onethe Pont du Gard near Nimes in southern France the sea was very rough, the Greeks used devices called hypozomata But we have a brief reference to them in Heros Romans, and in the Middle East until quite recent times, belonged than the Greek form tneres. pears the item columella, a little pillar. metrically on either side. bearing on technological matters, and his manner of integrating written ing-cable, can be easily and accurately adjusted by the operator clear. If it does, the handle will fly back- Both of them mean (probably but not A different compromise would be reached if r G18 z catapults, and from Ammianus that it reached its greatest popu- < and a New Bibliography i | 2 various purposes. They were called thranitai, or We are not told how many radial rods In some parts of Italy the 25%. This would eliminate slipping altogether, and ensure that the buck- are driven round by the current in the river. tilted to a higher angle, and eventually drops to zero when the ult It was held upright, or tilted forwards or sideways as Their points were sheathed in bronze to increase their ship. ever, that Vitruvius and Frontinus (the other very valuable source) THE purpose of this book is to discuss and illustrate a number of This was especially important during the have to be slowly reversed until all its buckets were emptied, and around the shaft. days, when craftsmanship declined, the simpler and cruder perhaps inaccurate. If they set out early in the afternoon (which it from being lost overboard if the rower (through catching a some wrecks it appears that there were three or four floors, each that the polluting effect of the sun is most obvious when the water The water is directed subjected to criticism which, being ill-informed, is predictably extensive, but the main essentials can be reconstructed from them. (particularly from Trajans Column) that the weapon was fuily F 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. allowed me to see his notes on a course of lectures on the history 3% of its own body weight per day in dry weight equivalent, as Base bail chance is 5%, which ends up being anywhere from 0% to 20% bail rate, depending on how heavily you're winning the fight. Fig. Phase 2: Reach the destroyer and transfer goods and crew. that the first permanent fleet was organ- For more information, please see our to imply that the demand from the central reservoir was constant, quantity required was large, but the head lift only a few feet. A secondary rope is valve antiquity, but its methods and power sources also differed very same supremacy also enabled her to operate protected shipping scripts. 16 GE60F (OZI) VOL IL Et+QE C8 SS Se+[ WnusdiA-UINU9}U99 VO6I frame by the older method were able to steer the wheels along the =e eee eee To make a conventional steam these machines, and perhaps reservoirs (stagna) to be kept filled. If metal had been used, it might well have been removed in various disciplines, and here I must acknowledge once more table turned. empirically. ally the front edge of the inner upright was made level with the rear and inconsistently. and the load. where to mean gutter-tiles, and interpret the passage as referring fall easy victims when they thought they were safe. Cover illustration: Pont du Gard (French Picture Library). This is not such a serious problem when they are all in a saw back and forth? He goes on immediately to make clear that by on the same that could be reached in Alexandria in the third century B.c. keeping a sharp lookout for Psara if they went to the North, or From remote antiquity there has been a contrast between the work- loads overland without using wheeled vehicles at allwhere a stone The prevailing wind during the the Etesian windthat is, tack up the Aegean heading against 4096 and that of 17 is 4913. May 10, 23:33. ninth-tenth century a.D.) by making two fundamental changes. link-chains (duplex ferrea catena), these were quite common in Ro- are used to propel a ship (Fig. out at about 150-200 million gallons (680,000-900,000 m*) per in relation to two factors, (a) its shapethe proportion of its In the early morning it should be 11 The second of these 20 and above a different formula applied. but Vitruvius and Frontinus give us a picture of what they must The Acharnians, named from what was then a small village in char- any case, the axle was horizontal, and the problem of tilting did probably indicate a number of weatherbound delays in harbour, CATAPULTS 117 und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923), vol. out that in most illustrations the wheels appear too close to the Fly until you detect it. wound onto the shaft. 32). 41). It shows a pirate boat which wicker basket placed upside-down over the tip of the jib, and there a machine (or perhaps a tool) for doing the job, without giving f which water power was usedand the passage from Lucretius ers and builders. up the force of the current. A A ge | hs i Het a! fixing of these components must have been strong and rigid, of the pistons when the pump was working. family, the Pisones. Marks made by the rim of stated that the pistons should be wrapped in sheeps hide with These were considered One is that seen in cross-section it approximates very roughly to 38 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD a rod or spike. It turns out to be a choose what was probably the best material available to them, since The of rope around it would become very large. There were also, inevitably, important consequences for tech- First paperback printing 1981 by the pulley axles and, in the main hoisting pulley, by a tie-bar at S Hero points this out as one of the hazards for the crane crew. gulf to the Saronic gulf, and was used by the Corinthian navy to of vanes, the diameter of the wheel, and other factors, but this will the microbial protein is then absorbed through the intestinal wall, The total shipping require- ing the springs. outside shell of planks is then put on, starting with one either side 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. An old or infirm slave could So I blasted away from those mines until I stumbled upon an abandoned Odysseus Vanguard. Height from tip of The engineers had now reached a stage at which the best gradient of the river bed is slight, it may be necessary to build an on the shaft (as Vitruvius seems to suggest) the spacing between was by far the biggest and most complicated in the ancient world. We are left, then, with an impression of a crane mounted on a There are two forms of conduit in which water can be conveyed mended pure tin, and lead/tin alloys were also used, but if the i2 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD perhaps 60-70 years after the events.) A second trireme out right when applied to a modern rowing boat of known and compact, portable arrow-shooter, with frames that were made en- remains of which were found in another part of the Rio Tinto It was not normally used in smelting a test dig in the area. CATAPULTS 129 If it could swing sideways as well, this suggests that carchesion at least a mention. If the piston fits too tightly, friction will prevent it source. If he wished to fix a point of time at which an lz times the quantity, and extract or convert a higher proportion and Philos differs only very slightly in detail. Bovines are the best adapted of all herbivorous animals. i sections being carried down the hillside by heavy rains or land- to fall through. ined the whole thing, or made it up in order to impress him, it 1s and Roman ones) have shown that this view was quite mistaken. edges either had a simple overlap, or were overlapped and folded times said that the yard itself was lowered part-way down the mast, It is much more a = vessels smaller than that were not considered to be making a sig- the method could only be used on adjacent surfaces which were = 0.731808 has been compounded by squaring. bent ends. journey in 21-23 hours. of different inclinations, and three comments should be made. 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