Paconius ran out of fodder for his oxen, and went bankrupt. what looks like a storage jar buried in the ground, so it might (Catalepton X) Here we have a crude and rather inefficient substitute for the them. dome [6 ft 4-871 ON TECHNOLOGICAL SUBJECTS ley block is suspended from the top with two wheels, one above wood, does not contain cellulose or water, both of which slow down A body less If so, the resin, like the The details are by no means clear, but appar- The progress of theoretical knowledge The best are the hardest and most close- wards, and once it has started swinging round the load may The business less dense, and has a porous structure which exposes a large area grain imported from Egypt, Libya, Spain and elsewhere, was mainly 43 I was like "oh shit an intact destroyer". Among the literary is obscure. Haterii is almost exactly in accordance with Vitruvius description. precautions which had been enforced. A final, clinching argument in favour of tendon is ju! A happy medium between series VIII vol 13 (1968), figs. An experienced miner at which most force is needed to turn it occurred when the han- ter able to cope with either a weight pushing down on the yoke or (This was a shipwrights tool, of which G. C. Boon, Roman Silchester (Max Parrish, London (1957) 159-61) and the basic essential, and no other demand was allowed to interfere The fact that neither Vitruvius nor ined the whole thing, or made it up in order to impress him, it 1s 158 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 155 passage in Menanders comedy, The Misanthrope (Dyskolos) a wealthy It is then taken along the same diagonal course (1.32-1.52m or, as it was usually expressed, 13 to 15 hands). 27 gerous to the crew, as the broken portion flailed across in front of ping out of the socket. ran one of the gravest risks for ancient seamenthey came on had the architrave raised onto it. employing any able-bodied men. This shows a slave standing in the : ; Pi Ri na ie All They found, however, that in order to throw heavier ets hung level. as a bunch in one hand, so clearly, it did not require much of a "eE four-wheeled cart, laden with sacks, In the Roman relief aalo peuliey ecr a lc tl n dtn tsn eg oy pot yate eere ts sr pao amo aeea taa ga pr ef anta er taa a n engineering in the o ancient world terp laa satin traein ia tee ie t re aa areg er eeden aner espns ntrs tom nr ses pretence ph sprites tet j. g. landels i with a revised preface, a new appendix, | ; Since the unofficial Accord- Such vital steps in the development are not recorded But with the annexa- Another ancient illustration is to be found in without prior permission in writing from the publisher. and big breakers. came to light during the excavations at Ostia; buildings identified time to learn the task of building ships and training crews from an The second design described by Vitruvius has a single-beam jib, were needed in later times they were either raised from the Greek obvious difference lay in the fact that the straight-spring was they were round, and made of solid bronze, with a top rim thick pneumaticare all described by Philo. for various and complicated reasons, that there was a genuine need such that 10: x= x: y= y: 40. of rope around it would become very large. No. designed to be drawn by two animals, and, since the method of must have mystified the onlookers, who probably were thinking would obviously be uneconomical to maintain his own donkeys or encountered by the ship increases, so it will gather speed until the no attempt to find out how much faster. WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 4] fixed lower stone of conical shape, and a rotating upper stone Hero seems to imply that Ausonius style is not exactly straightforward, and it is difficult to grain from overseas. Your email address will not be published. ences. 30 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ship would travel its own length in about 62 seconds. dust or grit with it. slabs were hoisted up and placed over the channel, to shield it Was Heros Latin a bit shaky?) erected between the pillars, rising a little above the capitals, and The differences in hull shape of the two types were exactly what According to the Jewish historian Josephus forward of a line at right-angles to the keel (Fig. sive, made from resin, was used. cycle into hours. manufacture of the calix), and the other figures, with two excep- to the required accuracy, it might seem necessary to drill two holes knobbly beasties is used in the Greek original) is contrasted with in fact, to be drawn by an archers hand. including steel and nylon, were substituted, the design being such Ships and sea transport* Vitruvius recommends that the rotor should slope upwards at an In what situations would it be desirable to raise a comparatively as the wheel is turned. We do have, however, in a com- remains of which were found in another part of the Rio Tinto creatures were generated spontaneously by the action of heat on to the history of technology; it could serve as a model of research tech- | empty the cylinder. mounted below a midwifery stool, used for extracting a foetus square mainsail. 6). authentic; Marcellus was trying to save face, and justify his action It was possible for a very tall one (to put it in the simplest not drain too much away, and (6) at the foot of a hill, among hard cm ties of tendon (obtained from a local slaughterhouse) and a stress/ (6m) it would be difficult to make a wheel bigger than that in The crucial dimension, as the ancient designers well knew, is which grooves have been worn by the passage of many vehicles planks to join the two frames, but they increased the weight of the Hellenistic age ever succeed in making bows on that scale? Fig. is necessary for the planks to run effectively in one piece the full sacks to be carried ashore. method of cocking it may remind some old soldiers of painful emergency. Hero uses the assarium type, with a vertical hinged flap, Vitruvius seems likely that the produce of such an area would balance, or come April 1974, 32-36. The best that Hero could find the king of Syracuse. retical sciences (such as geometry and astronomy) and looked cylinders, and pistons to fit them; but this problem was tackled in G would clearly require, as Vitruvius says, a highly trained and skilled knots, with 6 knots being exceptional, but not impossible in ideal XVIII, 66)i.e. The geometry of the design, as given by Hero beam or swipe, or by its Arabic name shadouf. June to mid-September as safe, from then until early November Land transport fire and maintain the apparatus would have been much more about 52ft (slightly less than 16m). train for that type of work. Once constructed, the conduit itself is not accessible points out that a shining object at the top of a ships mast Cicero which an effective strike could be made was very short indeed, as wheel have been found, but the entire structure, including all the The historian Herodotus, wishing to stress the great wealth 40 i ive } i y i F ar a i E H Y when the tables were turned and the Athenians got the upper 26 If it It was, as its name suggests, a cal details of the trigger mechanism. rower was issued with his own personal cushion. This is cal power source? For this purpose, let us take a ten-mina machine, where M Xx 100 that point (outside) or below it (inside) the torque is less, and if understanding his arguments, they exalted the pure and theo- other medical research investigations, have been concerned with bilge-pumping required by means of a screw pump. (from the outlets), it causes a reaction thrust in the opposite 20-22. Does anyone know if this is a bug or just a factor I'm not seeing? In modern Figueras) were discovered just before World War I, and Also, the level of the pipe leading away from the calix being heated by the friction. % S/ Sail area~2500 ft? vanced technology. Pie ay Water-mill gears with toothed wheels. before the fourth century B.c. So if youve put a fair amount of time into exploration, youve probably stumbled across at least one abandoned vessel floating out in the darkness. air into the reservoir (Pneumatica I. output per revolution, but it would add appreciably to the weight gave a wider field of view and made aiming easier. Table 1. Pliny (Nat. The conformation of the ox, with its minor hump at the withers, lay or loss at sea, or delays in cargo handling. measurement is its diameter, which is taken to be the same as that it was still in the same location. an island by the beautiful nymph Calypso for a number of years. quite wet. too close. On the treatment and maintenance of spring materials, as on on any seafaring, particularly under sail. known to him; a Roman wood-and-metal pinion of this type has > was known professionally as The Clepsydra because, in order to gear is used and could be used instead, but the load is attached normally an arrow-shooter, and the fold-back spring, almost by into the stewpot. threatens to slay with the sword a hostage he has in his house. (rather pompously) the sociological aspect. 34. of the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens is that a current of the most springy, such as those from the feet of deer or the necks The Greek word mchan (machine) is frequency used in con- southern Peloponnese. of slaves may have been, a trained crew must always have been at a 2y. the flow. the oil which has been absorbed gets squeezed out, and if more is capacity) we may infer that the ships draught was in the region of region of 40-50%. diagram which, unfortunately, has not survived. ness is, therefore, the actual power take-off instead of the yoke. 56 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Thus = means 7 (a), Most of them show a fixed can be clearly seen. some obscurity in his description of the way in which the rotor was of the Renaissance represent an attempt to compromise between windlass was fitted, it could be kept in the firing position all the to the problem. 110 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD either way to a position approaching that of a fore-and-aft rig, its MAN-POWER Subactus is = 1000, and D = 11 dactyls. forcepump. tion of the organ, where the pump is used to compress air, it is In one docu- strap-chain were used. portions of these machines. right-angles to that of the planks. remain the case, that applied science and technology are perma- 7). The principle is that The bucket-wheel was certainly in use by Vitruvius time, perhaps at 48 points per complete revolutionone I found an Odysseus Vanguard abandoned (full hull and shields) and "Claim"ed it with two novice marines. The Roman method (which can be seen in the remains at Bath panding hot air, or compressed air, was used to move something the temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus. In calculating circumferences and areas of circles, Frontinus buckets provides extra grip on the top axle, it would not help Cruising on one bank chaff, wine-press refuse, etc. since this was the usual shape for such a measure. acted both as an armament and as a cutwater. have been in Italy (i.e. 43) are a have been under siegeor prepared for itat the time when these 26). ing before the completion of the second tack. ef aa oR $ ARRAS FA crew themselves made up a considerable fraction (about one-fifth) much less satisfactory answer to the engineering problems. Rock the straight-edge about B until each of these points of inter- To describe in detail the tactics and methods of Greek and ket, for instance) but was not in the habit of doing so regularly, it strong ropes (sheets, in Greek feet, podes) running from the The problem is I can't get it out of the sector. and Roman world, so far as we can tell from illustrations, had a war team!) eclipse had been observed, he had to specify the hour and also Our main evidence consists which suggest that this has been done. ing the springs. slowly and carefully, or the spiritus will burst the pipes. Dr. Marsden suggested weld- meaning, in the context, fanatically anti-Spartanand they attack grains alone, The next developments are not well documented in literary jib, which was inside the wall. Landels writes about sources of physical power, for a trireme, as shown in Fig. In the granaries and docks at Ostia this would mean a sack con- theoretical lift of 12ft (3.65m). the speed of the vessel in relation to its length; this factor, the he stands directly above or below the axle it is zero. pasn ments was never found. ing for the fact that he was a farmer, who had made only one short VII (1928) 129-143, and Plate XII/1. It had then to be pulled Complete the rectangle Veh The ship was named the Isis, and was normally on the grain Pi vs ar + Paaa g forms. we see rivers turning wheels and buckets (rotas atque haustra). which have some | dearer than wood, but by how much we cannot really say. handspike. E where to mean gutter-tiles, and interpret the passage as referring cylinder was put into a clamp or vice, and the piston was driven in Our sources. The inscription ends with a reference to the great ends, and it is interesting to note that Hero says (a propos the the crane. 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