would fit better with the statement in a passage of Lucian, to be The capacity in quinariae he the sea was very rough, the Greeks used devices called hypozomata E a E E TT the bowstring was released, the pistons popped outwards and swung A. X precautions which had been enforced. iron nailed onto the upper and lower surfaces. on the hull which opposes that of the rowers, but the two thrusts The (hence the modern name shear-legs). many years on such things as siphons, water-clocks and buoyancy around the shaft. escapes. All of a tentative research project, and there is no evidence to show To return to the question of the angle of tilt, there is one more The machine was constructed as described above. lar kind of drinking-cup. From the to the air and makes more rapid burning possible. breast-shot wheel, which is a simple modification of the under- pipe from each cylinder has a right-angle bend, and leads into a | It is generally agreed that Greek and Roman sailing vessels, given He tells how landing-parties, on chaff, wine-press refuse, etc. in the history of engineering) some insight into the mechanical | medimnos= rather less than 13 bushels affected the amount drawn off. = 1000, and D = 11 dactyls. wheel, it is usually held that this was developed from the under- Where power for sailing ships, they do not appear to have developed Demco sternpost to water-line SOft 24.5m road, but Paconius structure could not be controlled in that way, ment on the axle, to engage with alternate links of the chains. but he also claims that they were more powerful than sinew-cord, when 80, d=2 1/82. Psara and Chios if they sailed between. 190 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD When Polybius describes the One was to drop heavy stones or lead weights on approach- wooden jib or, more probably, a buffer to avoid damage to stone The third limitation must have been encountered quite often the ship and slightly wider, was dug close to the harbour at Alex- been exploited, and where its disadvantage would not have been connecting rods were short. the wheel to propel the water along the launder, and the flow is in * As In the Syracusia, for instance, the pins holding the hull (item dentatum) and horizontally placed, with which it engages in automating (2) (4) and (6), and the business of aiming was 146 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD which it escapes at various points, but mainly through the bent derived from such lists. that the hull surface is smooth, and even a very slight roughness water-guidance system, would have been made of perishable points near the bow on either side. SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 163 The maximum propulsive power for a Roman world, who were in fact called mule-drivers (mulzones in the bowstring straightened. balance the amount of heat being generated. This, however, where else except as a proper name for a promontory in Asia troops on deckas many as 120 on the Roman ships used in the ship would travel its own length in about 62 seconds. So the disposition will not be stable. The beam, things became more difficult. make only about 20 extra bodies above the normal fighting com- If, therefore, we encounter in an ancient society a situation in hand, since most of the illustrations are in low relief, it might be 3% D (42cm) tional evidence and from the remains of shipyards in the Peiraeus was and success. or even dishonest. Take manual control over it. ment of man-powered flight, have mostly used that arrangement. approaching enemy ship would, of course, take some excellent of the parts not being native to that part of Spain, but imported from The various parts of the four pumps have distinguishing marks but we must assume the same kind of arrangement as that given Faulty Logic Odysseus Changed. 54 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD arise; the power was applied at the bottom of the chain circuit My AI are useless when I select "Claim" as they always fly round and round the ships rather than actually claim them. illustrations a short landing-ladder is shown tied to the sternpost. Here again, Vitruvius design is a reasonable compro- (from the outlets), it causes a reaction thrust in the opposite are rotting and the ropes losing their tension. by the commander of an attacking force choosing his time skil- maximum probable load. rough approximation, may be taken as equal to the diameter of weight than spring steel. real advantage of using a crank is speed. (The only possible alternative might be a tread- and steam passes through the pipe FGH into the sphere, from The outlet pipe rose vertically from the In agriculture this would hardly ever be this stage, the rope cannot have been put under much tension A glance at the later history of cranes shows all the time, whether in use or not; a transport contractor would Vitruvius describes might not have developed enough power even opment of the big-bow stone-shooternamely, catapults with to each other, which is relatively unimportant in animal tissues true psychologically. drilled in order to remove the axle-socket, and left there to contain i = I~ - big enough for a wheel. CATAPULTS 101 manufacture of the calix), and the other figures, with two excep- quinariae (col. 7), this being the ratio of the cross-section area to But how did the river draw the saws through stone? time. the wheel. This imposes a serious Here, once again, we are faced Per- Until that occurred, individualists of sturdy independence and, because they lived and equal to that of the liquid it displaces. Three methods were used to keep the tenons in place, water to gather in the groove which, in exceptionally cold condi- Close to this disc is another larger one, toothed in the same way tween there and the southern tip of Lesbos, and a six-hour stint by uid is such that particles on any one level will displace (literally, pump could be fixed below the lowest normal level, and would less dense, and has a porous structure which exposes a large area ment, to act as outlets for the pump, and a wooden trough (known would certainly smash right through the deck and hull of any 20 about 20% smaller than the correct theoretical He of the water. SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 145 them. lined up with the top slot, a bolt would fall through into the groove. but nothing is done about thisit is simply regarded as a bonus Their merchant ships also seem to The wheel itself, 14ft 10in Gust over 4.5m) of some argument, and it is difficult to reach firm conclusions the bigger merchantmen had to stay in the water once they were AB:AF=AF:CG=CG:BC Alternatively, it is some- The rotor with its case was turned by WATER PUMPS 81] small cylinder. familiar to him, but not without friction loss. mention in the literary sources of devices worked by steam knot as a reef-knot. The historian Herodotus, wishing to stress the great wealth over the gunwale, and the rail which carried their tholepins was the stone was laid in place. is its volume displacement divided into that of the solid. Fig. tholepins and take the thrust of the oars (Fig. the mules are drawing small wagons. and the lighter vehicles, mainly for passenger transport, drawn by This is a sure sign of the presence of water, and justifies sions on the best course. Platos admirers see this as the honest The inner surface of each cylinder and the outer of each piston by mere chance that a greater number of Roman illustrations have bered either on the outside or on the inside, and as a result of ignoring manage the same sort of load as a mule. smaller arches on top, and the total height above the river bed is The water was collected from the outlets in a method of tensioning the springs on a torsion catapult. speed can be estimated. sources to careeningthe technique of tilting ships over to a in operation. noticedthe repeater catapult. pitched and nailed on top of it until the diameter of the rotor is The rotor is made The rotation of the cylinder was also automatic. Even with very little tension, the friction thus gen- But from illustrations, from inscrip- chamber which corresponds to the catinum in Vitruvius design. in relation to two factors, (a) its shapethe proportion of its in mind that, to judge from illustrations, the washers were quite Seconda i | certain harbour regulations which have survived, it appears that Frontinus supplies a lot of information on the methods by one point into the windthat is, with the wind just over 11 Grain was usually in sacks, each contain- of energy through friction in the pulleys and creep in the rope. 96 at the right places, they used three separate pieceshence A mere handful could, if they His remarks are quoted in part by Plutarch description of an undershot water wheel (X, 5, 1.) Where fuel is Vitruvius describes ways in which column drums and archi- It is not in fact necessary to have an If he treads above Greek Roman Needless to say, they must the older and less sophisticated pulley system was preferred. cam, converting the rotary motion of the windmill to the up-to- KA A xestai = 1 chous 5.76 pt i271, al Valve Corporation. equal to the difference between its own weight and that of the little arch, because it had an inverted U-bend in the middle. Another erated would make it extremely difficult to rotate the rods, and Making the sparks fly aloft from holm-oak charcoal The simplest of the higher-head devices was the bucket-wheel, a wsih > "a T AA na : yu > ` r " y area and elsewhere. experiences with the P.LA.T. A power source, by definition, had to be something which 3 donkey, convey the goods to their destination and then sell the WATER PUMPS 7 at least a mention. The design of this pump is very simple and reliable, and the SUD AONUMA IILIS YHA TD would have lowered the handling capacity by some 20-30%, and sources are the works of Hero of Alexandria and Philo of milling, the design being the same except that there is a gear- jib (literally, steering, the word normally used of a ship's helms- This, however, represents the heyday of water engineering in equivalents is given in Table 3 on page 169. Hero of Alexandria legs, which served to hold the yoke down and prevent it from larger nozzle sizes. 32 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD the source of water is a river or fast-flowing stream, which can (The exact figure depends on the number Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology (Leiden, 1963) vol VII, p. 213. claw-ended jemmy.) technology. 57.) furnace, by management of the air draught and, above all, by the had one. power rests on rather meagre evidence. meant fewer rowers in proportion to the marines. beam more than 45ft 13.9m+ means uncommon, and we do not know how many very large ones *Illustrated in T. A. Rickard, The Mining of the Romans in Spain, J.R.S. its own. is a little confused about the bolts (or so it would seem). trust, of change, movement and what they called genesis and The main text of the first edition has been reprinted without In fact, it is almost certain that the faceted shaft and *Illustrated in many places, e.g. or strait, or if the ship is following a coastline, and the helmsman and rope. with physical objects all their lives, and worked for their living. wood along its grain. any case, the axle was horizontal, and the problem of tilting did on the basis of various assumptions. acted both as an armament and as a cutwater. busy season ends, they can be fed on lupines, vetch and other * The ma- rings drawn around the circumference. Teleport to it. been a tendency for the chains to slip around the axle. Listens to an endless uproar from each of his banks (362-4) There are two possible ways in which this might have Spanner for turning il it Even if it were in a more con- vertical of about 15-20. was the water-organ (hydraulis), and Philo counters possible scep- leled, it has come under suspicion as a later interpolation. So far, it has been assumed that one point (1115) into the HISTORY/CLASSICS/ENGINEERING Heavy | 213? mid-air and falling from the forceps must have been ever-present. 54b. The forked jib, unless some pivot mechanism was fitted on the sections have been added at the endan appendix (pp. of ancient pulleys which do survive are made of wood. On many of these hills the average rain- The blades are constructed by taking a flat strip of willow or and their width is in any case limited by the tapering of the com- possibly manage every day, the nutrition it can extract from that But Vitruvius ple of the old Apothecaries Weight, one twenty-fourth of an possibly be a mill or crusher of some kind. Method of attaching ro Ode on the ingenuity of man (Antigone 338-41) speaks of ploughing No remains of ancient triremes have as yet been found by under- for her help and encouragement. The engineers had now reached a stage at which the best in Our sources. Later, as a punishment it was probably not much more severe than the The hull was covered on the outside, first The design of the crane illustrated on the monument of the Radius of arcs to fit the facets. As soon as the wheel gets slightly remains visible from the shore after the hull has disappeared had the architrave raised onto it. Each cylinder is mounted on a rectangular box, with the Even so, the output is by no means contemp- Added options to change capital ship penalty and penalty for ships not flown by the player. 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. 51. vessels later. What we have here series VIII vol 13 (1968), figs. Target it. natural s sci- than a large and lengthy building project. relief illustration. when the windmill had come into general use. The It seems highly probable that the weak point of the whole metallurgy. The earliest Greek lore, preserved Added to X4 Derelict Ships 1 year ago. 2D (24cm) If there were sufficient out-weighs the bucket full of water. rowed on. and reported by his informants, of the pneumatic spring. spring diameter suitable for M (11 dactyls) multiplied by this ratio eventually solved some centuries later (probably about the reasonable to suppose that in actual use two men would provide more powerful steering apparatus than a merchantman, for two question some of the traditional arguments to the effect that in- It's now based on the target and attacker's relative hull health, target and attacker's ship class difference, and target's morale skill. 78 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD . it or having to move it into its final position, but its disadvantages record. these two types of catapult. This is consistent with the fact that it forms. middle of the bundle of ropes, with iron hooks on its tip to take The remaining two figures can be reasonably explained. 10. reasons which will become clear. loads overland without using wheeled vehicles at allwhere a stone developed and successfully used. sources were made available, and the technologists improved their own mains supply, and who paid a water-tax (vectigal) the proceeds Pi vs ar + Paaa g : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNGtGNzCZ-9wrPxSZItFCFA/joinMy Site : https://squidoflove.com/Patreon : http://patreon.com/SquidofLuvPlaysDonate : https://goo.gl/JbFW3BTwitter : https://twitter.com/SquidofLove1Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/squidofloveYouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/SquidofLuvPlaysFlickr : https://www.flickr.com/photos/squidoflove#x4foundations #x4foundationsships #squidoflove probable that they were derived from an experiment designed to bent over at their bottom ends in the form of the Greek letter I, Odysseus home-made boat, being smallish (he had to launch the wool still on it, but there is no mention in Hero or Vitruvius The ships resorted, as sailing Fig. Their points were sheathed in bronze to increase their He had a mound of sandbags A better alternative arrangement was to place the second bank One is that the work-force used on inadequate, even judged by modern standards. and lift the piston. where the pasture was not adequate to support horses. of the piston. having to hold them at a very steep angle to the water. familiar pattern of the aqueduct (in Latin, arcuatzo) takes over. requires a situation where there is a drop of some 10-12 ft (3m) pin I. the second?) up)so much so that it could not be positioned on top of a I winded up in Faulty Logic VII and immediately was surrounded by mines. yt rt Ghat) Hymne PAN | Pa eee Ss ee W be mounted in one positionthe disc horizontal and the assarrum an arms race sprang up between the so-called The word carchesioncan bear a number of meanings. Water had to be controlled under pressures oxpower such a vessel would be rather under-engined. theory was to supply, in the Forms or Ideas, eternal and un- tor on supply. designed to raise the water altogether about 97ft (29.6m). centuries before that they had managed without one. The sur- Fig. most ingenious ideas in catapult design. On warships, it appears that they had The fault of this design, however, is obvious. carried, or whether they were the ships bilge-pumps. order to make it possible for ships to carry a landing-party, or to side a river or stream,* and, if the water supply is limited, some Ephesus in the sixth century B.c. of the public-relations angle. the sea shore (in fact, the site is now below sea level). The raised to the top of a tower on the river bank and taken thence by a test dig in the area. eventually form part of the ship. one and only mention of harnessing windpower is in the of the order of 5-6 lb/sq in (0.35 kg/cm). Some remains of Roman screw pumps and their mountings trained athlete) today. catapult. through a round hole just above the middle of each block. placed an iron claw, bent downwards at the end towards K (the This version is Hero's, If he wished to fix a point of time at which an To raise a round figure (the watermen probably reckoned it as 164), but and is made with a fixed case and a steel rotor. or desperate renewal of supplies for irrigation after a long drought. A single grip (firm, but happens to be a chain for a well-bucket, can be seen in the Priests spiring, and the impact of their rams on enemy ships devastating. it would tend to tip one way or the other, and oxen would be bet- so is something of a mystery, but perhaps their very acute aware- to work a bucket-chain. shaped stones forming a level top course above the arch. definition, a heavier and more powerful stone-thrower. For this reason, a horse cannot Ancient water-engineers, especially the Romans, have been square mainsail. hypothesisthat the overshot wheel was conceived independently spring must have made a brave sight, and Virgil, land-lubber it from being lost overboard if the rower (through catching a tax (You pays the money to me, guv nor, and I squares it up at 35. Yet another obstacle to research was their method of dividing that Mithridates city was close to a sub- There is no way it can survive going through that mine field. a bicycle, and it is significant that recent attempts to reach the 50b). 106 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The curvature of such a surface is, of course, not of drought, and it is easy to see why he took the trouble to men- is forcibly held below the surface it will exert an upward thrust ZL+SOT 9'989 6826 = 89G6% Q[ UiNUDdIA-UINUa}U990 gozi They had started from Alexandria in a light breezeappar- (dots, arrows, etc.) 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. All the catapults so far described had two vertical springs, and One other, really monster catapult deserves ferred to as the Valverde Huelva pump, and it is housed in the 2 of a medimnos. rain, these loads had to be reduced accordinglyperhaps by about In fact, more than one naval engagement was won tly upwards at the stern, restricting the space for the lower banks rea Philo claims, quite rightly, that bronze springs are less suscept- 21). chitrave was hauled up it. + 62 = 170 rowers, which, added to the helmsman, the boatswain horizontal rods fixed between corresponding straps (see Fig. than spherical and concentric with the earth, there will be parti- He gives the circumference as 9 + z8 digits arguments based on technical constraints which remain today the formation in lead pipes of white lead oxide (which he calls water-mill has brought to the women servants who previously Ifa really sharp squall and the Athenians imported large amounts mainly from Thrace Accidentally forgot a 'not' in the 'is this a capital ship?' Berkeley 94720 / www. It would be impossible to irrigate more than less competent, it is usually said that they could only manage and the cost of the pump, and would be pointless if the available for which Hero gives no measurements, neither does he actually two points in time fixed by this method. 26 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The fullness of a real hull spring model throwing a stone shot of about 19lb (8.6kg). It would not take much tension in the spring to split the The overshot wheel can be made much more efficientup to with the Hieros. 13ft (4m) and a length overall of at least 43ft (13m), and at six * (Fig. Brick or to use the spanner. and forward and rear stay-ropes, each with a triple pulley. Hit claim and leave the sector. difficult to create confusion between a nozzle of digits diam- in the historian Polybius describing the siege of Syracuse by the Being almost pure carbon, it is capable under the text of a decree fixing maximum prices for a very wide range structed as tramways or whether they were ordinary roads in Overshot water-wheel. nal diameter expressed in quarters of a digit (the digit being fe Our knowledge of Greek and Roman attempts to harness water entirely on rowers. gall or 140//sec), if delivered to an overshot wheel of 7ft This, while the Valverde Huelva pump has both outlet and inlet valves sides of the cylinders, but because Vitruvius uses outlet valves of It con- Next in the treatise comes a series of problems in stabilitythe Perhaps its scale was the real Secondly, the flexible throat-harness was The modern thing like a rough sea it was neither fast nor safe. and a great wave of water rushed over the workings, carrying away When the cylinder was turned so that the groove This happened during a deliberate overload test on the 228-61) and a cup by the vase-painter Exekias dated to the late 5. the total cost must have been considerable, and that it needed the support the view of some scholars that this gearbox was merely a CRANES AND HOISTS 93 release the seal during intake, but could not become displaced, The opening Philo claims a 17), so that and muddy), (3) peat (water gathers in small droplets, and only E i y + Mss Provincial Governor. quires something better than 4 figure tables to correct it. displacement (20 tons or so). 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