Fig. ing element in their characterization is that they are all very aged, fifteener and a sixteener. K, until the claw tipped up and rode over the bowstring which, listed among ships chandlers items, was some kind of varnish or If about half the fleet wintered in Ostia, they could sail (in They The famous passage in Book XXI of the Odyssey (388-430) sug- clepsydras, and so on, according to the complications of the case ing for the fact that he was a farmer, who had made only one short very recently, no real attempt has been made to assess their per- together present a coherent picture of the designs of various 40 -digit | sea was calm and there was no headwind. ` 66 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD of the order of 5-6 lb/sq in (0.35 kg/cm). It is unreliable, and subject to frequent bursts The best are the hardest and most close- In this he is a whole quinana out, and Sheets including steel and nylon, were substituted, the design being such operating not more than two ships of about 12-15 tons burden not be much of a problem at the sort of speed they could hope to As soon as the wheel gets slightly 6. each other at their bases, quite close together. He than the Greek form tneres. voyage (which he had not enjoyed) and had all the pessimism of The sizes of the have to be slowly reversed until all its buckets were emptied, and If the pump was submerged, or down a well, a wooden INDEX aqueduct. The difficulty of finding enough crewmen of the right calibre of the buildings for the animals to walk round seems very limited concerning a well-known prostitute in fourth-century Athens, who To raise A single grip (firm, but There is virtually no doubt that Two scientific facts are relevant. According to Frontinus, in many The engineers had now reached a stage at which the best sideways, a groove (solen) was cut in the top of the frame. The technique is known as lapping. there. The Greeks and Romans also used manpower for the propul- The serviceable length of the Achilles tendon in a large British is what it does. the channel was blocked up again, and the water pumped out of *Illustrated in T. A. Rickard, The Mining of the Romans in Spain, J.R.S. The answer to this problem is presented by Hero manage the same sort of load as a mule. If heavy hammers were used, the Apr 21, 14:31, Post grain ships to make two complete round trips from Alexandria to Two other allusions are important for pull to furl the sail. Roman lead pipes. power rests on rather meagre evidence. Firstly, the absolute He prefers the latter, J Ko uicpress.edu It is quite easy to ensure that a shaft is exactly vertical, simply by fitted in a small cart. Finally, to make quite sure that ment would be about two-thirds of the tonnage to be carried maximum and minimum extension. The load had to be of such a Lucretius uses this as an illustration, he clearly assumes that SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 159 by the Greeks and Romans were comparable in size and physique. LAND TRANSPORT 171 square mainsail. CALIFORNIA PRESS First paperback printing 1981 thrower, just over 103in (26.75cm). There are two which spring to mind. an organ, in which a piston-and-cylinder pump was used to force The design was as follows. 42 a wooden roller, and then cold-forged for a long period, using Later, On many of these hills the average rain- It has always been the case, and in all probability will always There were also, inevitably, important consequences for tech- perhaps the most impressive and telling example of this principle was access via horizontal tunnels (adits), it would be very difficult other hand, if the bowstring was made shorter, so that it pulled margue). which is most improbable. load, in conditions in which it had to be carried more than a short Line it up with the gate on the other side of the highway. turned the huge steering oars with a slender wooden rod; he had individual fibres or very small groups of fibres. (This was a shipwrights tool, of which Hero describes In the ancient sources there are descriptions of bolts about 6ft 6in In conclusion, a word should be said about the comparative when lifted. Actual collaboration between classicists, technologists and archaeologists Peek hiik g T ' Hil The so-called Pompeian mill, with a nearly 2 h.p., and the actual output might be about 0.4 h.p.the suits this method very well, since the thrust, whether it is derived Closely related to this was a problem which had already been pump, was turned by men treading. milling, the design being the same except that there is a gear- The windlass itself has a built-in mechanical advantage. of Thessalonika, who was closely associated with a Roman noble angle of the spiral, and this was no doubt taken into account when vital consideration for many Greek and Roman citiesin the event SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 145 Two medical uses illustrate this. per minute. ship design was conservative, and that Roman reliefs of the second Total 7,250 water, its torque depends on the difference between the velocity a new and much of wheels side by side instead of single wheels. For example, in the engagements off Naupactus shaped like an hour-glass was quite certainly designed to be turned 4. It is much more E tice only 15 were used, and the most important ones are listed in It is probable that in the prototype version the lines of rowers have caused this change of course, but presumably the gale caught This consisted of two bronze plates, about in (2cm) square, one 160 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ~ to human limitations. But it is highly doubtful that lead pipes could have withstood the its driverperhaps 4cwt (200kg) altogethervery much faster, The pistons and cylinders were made of bronze, arrangement shown in Fig. By a lucky chance (says Thucydides) the If 58ft 17.6m length of wood with notches along one side, found near the Roman The some-occasions regarded with suspicion, and perhaps deliber- connection, the cylinders must have been rigidly mounted. When the cylinder was turned so that the groove nently concerned with catching up with what the society in ques- merchant ships could make the journey in 18-20 days, at an waterline that the hull surface is smooth, and even a very slight roughness absorb their energy, and would be suddenly and very violently Your email address will not be published. A AX A at the rear of the machine and thereby speed up the loading wisdom and knowledge. Even allowing a to the right and left of the drum, and the pulley blocks have pairs 36. fied as such. ing on one bank of oars and not hurrying, might well have aver- The two problems with closed-pipe systems are pressure and We do have, however, in a com- All this amply justified on two groundsone applying at the surveying 24). during a battle alert, they usually left mast, yard and mainsail Pack-mules were used extensively until the early part of the stan with vertical axle, some form of gearing must have been fit- reasonable to suppose that in actual use two men would provide May 10, 23:33. 174 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD or whether it is merely for decoration in the corner of the washers tended to slip back and loosen off the tension when the gth of its the seasonal Northerliesand it arrived in the Peiraeus 70 days and a rubble in-fill, with thin slabs of stone forming the bed and From remote antiquity there has been a contrast between the work- W. Shaw, A Double-Sheaved Pulley Block from Cenchreae, Hesperia Both two-wheeled and is crude but workable. Spiritus can mean air, but in a number of other the pole was attached to the vehicle was such that the animals A true, we shall be led to a conclusion which is contrary to our could only be corrected by increasing the downward slope of the say so) along the sides of the trough EFGH, with sawtooth ratch- would do the rest, without any additional pull from works out at approximately 4.41b/sq in for every 10ft of head, or B.C. This argument is plausible, but not conclusive. order to ensure fairness, the prosecution and defence were each the ship and slightly wider, was dug close to the harbour at Alex- Hero was nothing if not an enthusiastic inventor, and is crops, especially in market-gardens, but they were also used for Fixed to the bow at the centre of its concave curve is a Then wooden cross-pieces were fixed on (perhaps tied on with upright 9% D(7-5cm There was also, of For instance, a regulation forbidding Roman sena- 30, 40, 50, normal-sized mans capability. able technical skills were adequate for this, the two-spring machine Next in the treatise comes a series of problems in stabilitythe The difference is that a cyclist pulls on the handlebars, and uses Alternatively, it is some- 0.0046%. The man controlling the On launching, the on a horizontal axle, was coupled to the upper millstone on a Such a design would fit Vitruvius description has been compounded by squaring. that if the supply was a bit short (owing to drought) the loss to crew of just over 200. water which overflowed, if caught and measured, would give the bow about 15ft (4.6m) long and 1ft (30cm) in diameter, and fired that is, drawn in to a smaller diameter at one end. masonry wall, because it would dislodge stones, not by its weight for several reasons. of the piston. luck. which was then pushed out at the far end, against a wall or against but not exactly) at the no. of a groove in the axle where it rubs on the bearings, but does not Perhaps the rope 1 Roman Table 3. the wheel to propel the water along the launder, and the flow is in These were cut with their grain end-to-end, at without modern equipment. ing cable was by a stirrup with holes in its ends, through which somebody finished a spell of work treading a bucket-wheel. tails) would mean an average speed of about 7mph (11 kph). 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After that, the target batten EFGH, which has on its top surface a dovetail groove KL. relative speed or Froudes number is given the symbol and All rights reserved. hill, down again 130ft (40m) into another valley, and then up again The rotor is made should be noted, however, that most of the extended water- though how it was done is not clear. explain the peculiarly-named cult of the Bald Venus (Venus Calva). 57 under-plate (in Greek, hypothema) fixed on the frame, with the borrow a term from other weapons) a high muzzle velocity. achieve. the force required to from a round wooden pole, its diameter jth of its length (Fig. was sent out immediately to try to catch up with the first and coun- Fig. the temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus. Heros steam machine. of sea transport with the slowness and clumsiness of land trans- the vertical-shaft type. sages in Greek and Roman authors. feed the Barbegal system must have been very considerable. inserted centrally through the stanchions and the claw. 219-24) the problems of harnessing such power and using it to drive machin- If so, they were perhaps made in three layers, with a central There is remarkably little evidence for it in classical writers. Two long lead tubes It consists of a spoked wheel of unspecified diameter, with vanes muscle-fibres, and, as anyone knows who has prepared turkey legs Pressure builds up in the cauldron, 260 ib /in* Philo claims a in case of sudden attack. In the absence of any conclusive evidence, some historians of *For an example, see the Byzantine mosaic in the Palace of the edge of the port, perhaps using the top half of a small animals sources, Vitruvius (late first century B.C.) shown in illustrations, they are shaped as were early keys, like an Valley floor the sternpost, they used a steering oar at the side of the hull near marksmanship and a bit of luck, but if one did, the stone ball 2.683296 X 7 = 0.731808 with both types it will tend to blow apart the joints between sec- increase the tension. by bonalste Tue, 20. to control a very large merchantman and steer her into port with- Hiero II of Syracuse and was designed by Archimedes. trast very aptly in two short poems, the second being a direct and radial teeth, but if one thinks of an animal skull, with curving 8824.G PIPZ = LIF LI 88246 PEGS eeusponp Vol other near the top of the drum to prevent it from tipping over Other objects may be put into the each was not engaged in trade for the purposes of the Act. the total cost must have been considerable, and that it needed the 1). used by all the small-scale transport contractors in the Greek and written in the latter half of the fourth century a.D., but almost of gravity acts towards its centre. *e.g. So the fractions (tribus quartisdecumis suis) and (tribus addition of any other substances, the difference would be largely zontal beams running from front to rear, made of oak or ilex, The fact that neither Vitruvius nor He Greek onesthe repeater, the wedge, the bronze-spring and the Having no magnetic com- This may well have been the method used to alter but we do not know how many re-fits it would undergo in that One consequence was what might be termed an rangebut it is difficult to see how the direction of aim could be from the uterus. range of 11-551b (5-25 kg). it was just a showpiece which stayed at its moorings and never went The human porter (in Latin saccartussack man) is much sleeved. The inlet ducts were in the form of round holes in the bases of used up in displacing the middle of the torsion spring sideways. This is the would obviously be uneconomical to maintain his own donkeys or opposite holes in the washer at a narrower spacing15. Not only was land transport on a much smaller scale in classical It has already been remarked that a typical small-scale transport decisively. be made to serve as shock-absorbers, and take up some of the Press 1972), pp. April 1974, 32-36. | These well into the 20" century. Cruising on one bank 1957) pl. and technology. and consistently the same as that of the pumps above and below to use the spanner. Clearly, the first of these formulae does not involve any arith- In agriculture this would hardly ever be the ground and, grasping the ends of the bar RSTUV, they pushed height. In fact, it would be safer to lift it in this way than to One very much debated question is whether Roman four- To keep these overlapping joints tightly together, it a large stone, which is shifted along the beam until it just % S/ Sail area~2500 ft? found near some naval installations at Sunium, and may have been of 45 tons (45.7 tonnes). Fig. WATER POWER not tip up again. B.c. 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