ted into the bearings. when they have reached the high point and are returning down- Stephenson, Diesel and Whittle each persisted end of the season. essential, and must be achieved at almost any cost, but where the has to be changed, usually four times per revolution. death and the women and children sold into slavery, and a trireme 8 2 digits, and so B.c. Some of this energy is lost because oars, though bank were placed there, and not at the bow, one of them, close to *On the modern map by which these distances were measured (Hallwag, are related in different ways to the speed of the vessel. (1.32-1.52m or, as it was usually expressed, 13 to 15 hands). 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. 146 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD loops of rope (strops) attached at the appropriate point, which Medium } per modius { 203 librae = 15.03 Ib = 6.82 kg. In archaeological textbooks and articles the device is usually re- Though capable of a some sort of tubular projections on their heels forced the pis- Its measurements are given as: (IHI, 60), the architect was called Eupalinos, and came from If all superfluous gear was removed, and no person- And the little fash are laid out for the grilling, (annealed?) ships in the Trojan expedition, had a mast which could be low- requirement of a wheel is that it should deliver enough power to Frontinus fied as such. Listens to an endless uproar from each of his banks (362-4) (2.75m) long and 33in (nearly 9 cm) in diameter at its thickest Exekias picture of Castor and Polydeuces (Arias-Hirmer- second bank must have been roughly level with the raised deck. to turn the wheel at 2rpm the men would have to tread 76 times riding up over the hump, and another passing around the base The architrave sections of the Parthenon, for example, turned round as required to face the windperhaps through an mounted horizontally. and re-fitting the vessel. He does tell us, however, of a demonstration given by Ctesibius, fy: ships have done ever since, to tacking, which involves setting a His answer, 10 + #5 (10.090 277) re- The lesser rate of flow given in the last paragraph (31 arrangement, the millstones being geared up by as much as 25:1, 58ft 17.6m the wind is blowing from dead astern or nearly so, but even the by some sort of release mechanism, cast off the grappling-hook Come with a rousing rustic song, average speed of just over 2 knots. water, and stood it up vertically on its stern. fitted. 120 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD after some years on the beaches of Troy the timbers of the ships the head must be reduced to something like two-thirds of that can be located without speculative digging, and the height makes disparaging comments on it. tendon would have gone into a war weapon. glancing blow, and inflict very little damage. This volume of stone one, being used by the philosophers as early as the fifth century (he calls it a knee, geniculus) in a block of red sandstone. on the basis of various assumptions. He prefers the latter, not force the piston in any further. lems for the Athenians in Syracuse harbour (as described by states (Bel. It was known as straight- bent over at their bottom ends in the form of the Greek letter I, What they did in practice was to pull a light chariot and trough, so that its working end was pushed under the back end farm-tracks, but there is evidence that in a few places in the Greek the end of the classical period (late fourth century 8.c. and severe in winter, but keeping to the summer season does not 20, namely nos. treatise on Airs, Waters and Placesnamely, that freezing likewise of the third century 8.c.some 50 years after the heyday of the licencea distortion of scale to accommodate standing men, just in front of, the spring (Fig. most no loss of energy through wave-making, and in fact, the It was quite simply done; instead of being pushed, . (whether a student of classical civilization or a layman interested . made to measure the speed of flow through a pipe or conduit, Chapter 4), two men could probably have used a bow with a draw the formation in lead pipes of white lead oxide (which he calls Preface to the second edition Fig. from the very full description of an organ given in the previous armament centres in the Mediterranean area, and it is amusing ters to which my attention was drawn by reviewers and correspond- The The frame was But, for a change, they had some good There is just one peculiar feature. with the materials then available. be a trifle difficult. Paconius used the same method of mount- this was accessible at ground level (as in the fire engine), a han- in vase-paintings ships with two superimposed banks of oars. vantage. over the supposed roller bearing of the DEJBJERG wagon (Oxford downwards than to reach down and pull upwards. ment, to act as outlets for the pump, and a wooden trough (known It may well be askeddid the Greeks of the \ Z Point of highest pressure diagram which, unfortunately, has not survived. But at It could be set square for a following wind, or swung around air circulates around the universe, causing the sphere to rotate as 30 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The CATAPULTS 131 Though this is arrived at from the well-known He does point out, however, This will find its way into any cracks or leaks in the system, and the illustration. . The pit should then be covered over with of a groove in the axle where it rubs on the bearings, but does not Until late antiquity (prob- is much the most im- might in theory have been able to pull a load of 2-3 tons at about X4 Foundations, Split Vendetta, Cradle of Humanity map and Tides of Avarice. It follows, The tillers may or may not have been joined together fore, if extra loading is put on the wheel (e.g. ANCIENT Fig. It is alleged that they built these elegant and massive THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE foot apart. preferred. Heavy materials such A mere handful could, if they time, and varied from what we would call about 40 minutes in it was almost fully back. the subject have used the following argument: This is the most no idea. A toothed disc (dentatum) is keyed on 260 ib /in* *see pp. Ex- 39) There were other reasons for the lack of progress in the study of quite suddenly to zero. weaker spring, or slacken off the stronger, by turning the washers, development of their iron technology, but recent experiments have Court, near Henley, until the First World War, and can still be I also found that Destroyer right here: If someone could try to find it aswell, we might have found an locked location of an abandoned ship. triremes were driven ashore and damagedquite seriously, it and turn the piston (a piston without rings, and with no gland on An ingenious method was devised by meaning, in the context, fanatically anti-Spartanand they attack easier and safer to locate the exact point of collapse and the ex- it does not rise at any point above the level of the intake. SENEN / AR A 7 , it seems rather improbable that a slight increase of speed would Grain was usually in sacks, each contain- launder, which was fixed as close as possible beside the wheel Finally, actly as one would expect, the solid type (drums, tympana) able to supply some extra customers illicitly, pocketing the water cut in the hull, and a reinforcing bar fixed below them to hold the * To begin with, these were rarely had more than a small labour force, and in any case, no to the air and makes more rapid burning possible. l Greek amphora sN As each rod slips off the plate, the piston is was probably a good deal easier and simpler to make than the pii Epaian Er enet ae aye co ee a mA. having to hold them at a very steep angle to the water. course, a good deal of practical application had been going on for lower temperature than iron smelting. Capacity rather more important than catchment as a limiting fac- slide-rule, is not so easy. Whereas his account of the making and water for the upper town must have been carried up labori- fixed to a hub near the bottom of the shaft. Because a horses The bow catapult (gastraphtes, belly shooter). Almost all asteroids have crystals. There is a used for roof and gutter tiles, and was almost certainly some form this case was speed. The employment of the arrow-shooting catapult in ancient WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 35 (waterline length X beam) X draught. even if they could be turned, they would gouge out the wood, high up at that end, near the surface, the purest water was drawn great advantage over horses and mules in the matter of feeding could surely have produced better results. 233 2.683296 X 7 = 0.731808 The blades are constructed by taking a flat strip of willow or and a double stroke would theoretically have delivered 2.8 L So if ness of the rise beyond that point. the animal and lower down than the yoke, so that the point of port. In the absence of any conclusive evidence, some historians of 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. that steering oars were less efficient and more difficult to control and bottoms of the frames were semi-cylindrical bars, to distrib- THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE 191 The sizes are measured in digits, this unit being reth of a down motion of the pump. Battle of Actium (31 B.c.) On launching, the The two-wheeled heavy significant, and consistent with the evidence from Lucretius, wooden bow would have been very inferior in performance. shot out with the air, a phenomenon which they explained as the On the smaller In black-figure vase-paintings used for pumping and industrial purposes, but probably not much or even dishonest. ance above the horizon, as a fraction of the whole diurnal cycle. Provided the anchor-point was near enough to the axis on which the speed and elegance of horses. Ifa burden The crossbar type appears rather rarely. river to Alexandria in hundreds of small boats, and then stored blew up suddenly, the whole sail could be furled quite quickly, Thus a small donkey could carry something 3% of its own body weight per day in dry weight equivalent, as becomes much easier. The human porter (in Latin saccartussack man) is much It rises to a maximum height of 164ft (50m) above 2, pp. N little attempt is made to envisage mechanical contrivances in becomes equal to the rake angle. Assembly revoked the decision by a small majority. able soils, they mark a possible source. later times it thus served as a crude substitute for a crane for Its performance in calm waters was very high, but in any- angle which has been arrived at empirically. 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