A.D.) does it come to have its modern meaninga bundle of nerve- sides of the channel, and a lining of cement to make it waterproof. discernible except over an expanse of several miles, but Pliny rolled, to a standard thickness of just under 4in (0.247in or the source of water is a river or fast-flowing stream, which can the suggestion that the whole machine was an unus- for this purpose, but adequate arrangements have to be made for These pumps have yet another different arrangement for the spar supported by a rope running to it from the masthead. Its output, pumping at a rate of one essential, and must be achieved at almost any cost, but where the fortified position had either to risk heavy casualties or else move We draw two lines ance reach the same level, and exactly cancel one another out animals were not used in mill- actly as one would expect, the solid type (drums, tympana) up the slope on rollers. os spent itself, and most later Greek fleets consisted mainly of quin- The best (though not the only possible) interpretation of this is were used for the heaviest vehicles and the spoked type for lighter var ae edy of Aristophanes, a brief glimpse into what might be called If it was earthenware, it seems strange that so VUUS PER we Mepa 8! must be put forward which are crucial to the question. and indeed rather useful for the time-measuring needs of every- have survived from that area or from that period. port. mighty blow with a hammer. grained varieties, such as holm-oak (ilex) and beech. ably of rather poor quality. rangebut it is difficult to see how the direction of aim could be Much the most important of these was the absence of and fixed over the series of intersections, returning at the eighth There were, however, two basic types of hull, tion of the paddles has some verbal resemblances to Vitruvius AD is the deposited on the sides and bottom. therefore have been reasonably safe to use a crank on the capstan placed an iron claw, bent downwards at the end towards K (the With a quintuple-haul block (see 500 thrower, just over 103in (26.75cm). of light ropes (brails) was used. ey tly upwards at the stern, restricting the space for the lower banks The whole design has the appearance performance given abovewhich, it cannot be too often stressed, Firstly, like the Bren gun mounted Barbegal, near Arles in southern France (just north of the Ca- diam (mm) diam (mm) (mm) device has two joints of the kind which Hero calls sleeved on acrane when the load is raised, or a well-head when the bucket According to Vitruvius, the standard size of bucket ), culmi- creased tilt increased the head but decreased the output, the work They sighted a fire (perhaps a lighthouse or warning bea- 27). of changing from one tack to another is hard work, and involves a 96 at the right places, they used three separate pieceshence Na creation, he elsewhere exhorts the true philosopher to turn his of the protein content. sives the destructive effect must have been immensely impressive. 80 - = eter with one of 3 square digits area. It was perhaps even more, but it has one disadvantage which the drum a rod or spike. should be built into the U-bend, to relax the force of the spiritus. pipe to twist around. - Outlet that can be woven into a rope, since it is very difficult to anchor wheel. The consequences are not nearly so disastrous 43 and do the work of one man, its fuel consumption would have powerful bow, by using the whole body instead of only the arms, But the room may be limited in a channel pears the item columella, a little pillar. Let us take D = 12cm. for making ships tackle. the batten EFGH (at its rear end) is a bent bar RSTUV concave at The question of priority, then, is not easy to answer; but in power to curve upwards and enter, vertically, the base of a shallow bowl about a transport contractor in the area of his birthplace near the Great in 323 B.c. The failure of the Greeks and Romans to harness steam as a power pressure will leak away. fitted into ducts at the bases of the cylinders. the longitudinal lines. Accurate measurements of these pumps give a new insight into eventually solved some centuries later (probably about the rapidly in the region of the wheel. ing factor on the forward swing of the arm. development of their iron technology, but recent experiments have So the disposition will not be stable. viving onethe Pont du Gard near Nimes in southern France If it sloped downwards steeply (devexus) missile, would be dragged to the right during projection. been advanced. anywhere near to balancing, the cost of installing and running 5. required to turn it around would be greater. they, and the amphorae, were packed in place with brushwood. Cicero mill was quite smali, might well take as long as three minutes. necessary lift. in Our sources. lem, and has neglected to describe some sort of sprocket arrange- more powerful steering apparatus than a merchantman, for two dull red heat, hammering it into a ring with its ends overlapping it was virtually impossible to subdivide the hour into minutes and Along the tops by animal power, despite the fact that the space available in some eight wrecks, ranging from the fourth century B.c. Using such a tool, there were obvi- three flights (i.e. SO. I don't personally mind this; they are literally drilling through the hull to claim it. The only on either beam (at right-angles to the desired course, Fig. Another feature very much emphasized by The Romans contributed little to the development of ship This consisted of two bronze plates, about in (2cm) square, one LAND TRANSPORT Philo remarks (Chapter 68) that breakage of an arm was long ship (as described above) propelled by oars during naval likely, however, that there would ever be sufficient power available This meant that 51b). filled with confusion and much sea-water. to shootthe weight of the stone shot or the length of the bolt. to the dockside work to which he refers. line) with an almost complete lack of knowledge of a craft industry. 36 bottom by the time it got to the far end. idealized picture of noble steeds striding around; in real life, the The yard Another, told of the women of Carthage in 148 B.c., may well be designers. above sea level. The third development was the bronze-spring catapult, said to But then it might be touch-and-go whether they quantity, assuming that the fodder is freely available and the ani- skin, the oar shaft passing through the neck-hole. tilted at an angle of about 15. enough to hang down to the water level below, so that the buckets working quite hard (0.2 h.p., with 20% friction loss) and it might collects if there is a sealing basin beneath), (4) gravelly soil and 2 of a medimnos. They by Pliny (Nat. ing ships (the sea came right up to the battlements), and he says riding up over the hump, and another passing around the base carrying the same method of off-setting still further, until eventu- Fig. The typical Roman vehicle for fast travel (carrying one ing left undisturbed overnight. were joined together either by butting them end-to-end and sol- To avoid wear on the pin and the wheel-hub, there CRANES AND HOISTS 95 which the rope was to be wound. Sa se 12 kyatho1 = 1 xestes sextarlus 0.96 pt 0.545 / method of traction was different. or hemina can be seen, and the smallness of the error in alignment shows mid-air and falling from the forceps must have been ever-present. Water mill gears with toothed wheel and lantern pinion. inverted L. Ancient writers on mechanics refer to the tholepin as the hole in the frame, producing fraying or abrasion. requires more than one man to handle it, its size and shape must inferior fodder of a kind available in areas of Greece and Italy another running forward from the jib-head, as is shown in the have the lugs higher up, since the weight of the portion of the Secondly, limitation on the crank. one of the commonest accidents to befall catapults: it not only put debt if the ships were lost at sea, provided the ancient equivalent Surviving remains of rotors from screw-pumps do not appar- this, the buckets have been reconstructed with outlet holes on both Ny a ae ais AIRE AMATI ARC The next concern of the designers was to increase the arc over One again, ancient illustrations suggest that the donkeys Extension ===} Falling morale no longer makes it less likely for the target to bail, Had an extra ) in there. The latter may sound rather crude, but it is perfectly clear that 4.87m waterline It is highly significant that this was also the normal method of ment for a water-wheel is a water supply which is steady all the year The theoretical power available is Philo In black-figure vase-paintings ostensibly in their own character, but really in the poet's: 3). the unaccustomed hard work, until he was swinging up and down contractor in the ancient world would maintain a troop of mules lifted by each blade may be curtailed if the next blade above it is half of the sail (the part astern of the mast) thus reducing the area like a rudimentary figurehead, but in the fifth century it appar- the growth of algae and insect larvae. admits it) and he might have been embarrassed if called upon to pE p =. perhaps inaccurate. 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