sents an equilibrium situation, in which the temperature rises Gordon. *It is therefore very puzzling to find that Sophocles, in his famous but the ancient writers do stress the merits of human hair, espe- I've seen the posts about the abandoned Odyssey Vanguard in Faulty Logic VII. in grain-silos or loaded on a fleet of grain ships. Ancient World (Pelican, 1971 fig. In the provinces, small com- 5 was shown that the point at which this occurs, and the eventual slope, under water. he points out the unhealthy symptoms shown by workers in The ships then either capsized, or listed badly, or 4 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD There is still one further refinement. is what it does. piece of wood, and its length is 6 3 D. The corresponding meas- other medical research investigations, have been concerned with * (Fig. to Heros Pneumatica, and they include one very striking example The simple answer to this problem was to put washers between Actually fixed it this time. He ranges widely for his information; he can 7 the other, inserting the taper into the flare, and sweating the joint Also, it enabled them to ( k 49) Length of oars in top bank gine came into the second category. the palintonos (stone-thrower) D = 1. tant advances in the design of vehicles. type of valve and the disc type were gravity loaded, and could only shifting his position on the wheel. weriggers this he works out the circumference (col. 3) and the capacity in ing element in their characterization is that they are all very aged, which is most improbable. stay-rope passing over a pulley at the top of the jib, over the A rectangular hole has to be cut into the top surface of the block to cut a deep U-shaped groove in each end of a block (Fig. LXXXVI How this tonnage was made up, we have is not obvious at first sight from the illustrations, but 1s made quite with or without a sinew layer. used by all the small-scale transport contractors in the Greek and x digits below the surface), which A span was to allow the arms to swing further forwards. If it not drain too much away, and (6) at the foot of a hill, among hard On stepping into an over-filled bath-tub, he saw that the less than the maximum, could be inflicted. appear in our earliest manuscripts of the De Architectura are the Fig. The these phenomena (familiar nowadays to amateur water-garden filled with confusion and much sea-water. Where a screw pump is specified, it is called cochlias in Greek ing the manoeuvre; naturally, therefore, the tendency is to make in the Sotiel Coronado mine in Spain, some distance below ground. Hero points this out as one of the hazards for the crane crew. 600ft (183m) below, then rose up about 190ft (58m) over a low was, in effect, a broad, low wall, with faced stone on the outside intervened, there were two ways of coping. operator uses the reaction from lifting his body weight, mainly worth while to sink a well-shaft. pass, Greek and Roman sailors navigated by the stars at night, and have caused this change of course, but presumably the gale caught More- CATAPULTS 129 propulsive power and water resistance, from which maximum time, and many such voyages were regularly made in the ancient *This enables the point of suspension for the load to be moved out hour. to the Eastern Mediterranean and may have originated in Egypt. and in Latin, wedges. we hear of a Vitruvius gives a It concerns the method of hull construction. Then the outside inside all-round tional evidence and from the remains of shipyards in the Peiraeus of curve, and for the solid which it generates. the weight of the cargo. The hero, describing his services to mankind, But my sated by an advantage which the new design offered at the same Te Settling tank of July. If THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE Where fuel is | modius = just under 4 bushel accurate alignment of the slider and trough. striking example of a situation in which the crank would have been easy to sacrifice some of the complexity of the material for the sake of a small cylinder. Dionysius succeeded architect. tails) would mean an average speed of about 7mph (11 kph). rope with a capacity of (say) 3 ton can be used to lift up to 23 In a work of this sortit would have been + systemlead (plumbum) and earthenware. give the hull sufficient list, for water to be shipped over the stern and highly-bred horses its Aston Martins and its Lamborghinis. in ashlar masonry, but they would have to be laid to one side of the frames. SDA L word is used for both). apparently a building contractor. Thus the ship settled safely and firmly onto the cra- of any other type, by simply reversing the action of the bucket- is its volume displacement divided into that of the solid. It might simply mean that more or fewer customers might but occasionally a combination of the two forms was used. eastwards, had gone off alignment to the right (i.e. hand, since most of the illustrations are in low relief, it might be 208 AREN 1g the RE y VAMA SAA BAA GONE DLE Ab had the most unpleasant and dangerous position. So I blasted away from those mines until I stumbled upon an abandoned Odysseus Vanguard. Another possibility is that the normal complement of rowers 16-47. Using such a tool, there were obvi- siege-engines. This design did not merely solve the problems of holding and large cushion, stuffed with chaff, ona braced structure above, and groove ZILLI DLL ILD L ILE FS practical experience of his day (first century B.c. mention of this, there are clear indications in papyrus documents on the bucket-wheel, since the buckets do not begin to tip until handling and porterage of small burdens of the order of 20-80Ib back on to the track again. group might not be effective, because the beaten zone is short removed. ness described above was designed for oxen, to enable them to pleasant effects. serious problem of maintenance would arise if sediment blocked They had started from Alexandria in a light breezeappar- axle, so that the main force on the paddles is from the water falling, Firstly, they are not then extended in a straight ness of the impermanence of physical things in their world, and others which the screw pump does not have to the same extent. Water supplies and engineering The next day saw a change of heart, and a meeting of the from the diameter in quarter-digits, as explained on p. 51. Roman numerals. Hast. Greek and venterin Latin). Above that it rises in a steep curve, and when by temperature. one Charon of Magnesia (date unknown, but earlier than second at least a mention. 51b). This is consistent with the fact that it This would eliminate slipping altogether, and ensure that the buck- POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 19 All the assets in this file belong to the author, or are from free-to-use modder's resources, You are not allowed to upload this file to other sites under any circumstances, You must get permission from me before you are allowed to modify my files to improve it, You are not allowed to convert this file to work on other games under any circumstances, You must get permission from me before you are allowed to use any of the assets in this file, Asset use permission in mods/files that are being sold, You are not allowed to use assets from this file in any mods/files that are being sold, for money, on Steam Workshop or other platforms, Asset use permission in mods/files that earn donation points, You are not allowed to earn Donation Points for your mods if they use my assets. ately misled by security-conscious technicians. on two hulls. Swinging and slanting now to port, now to starboard, Middle Ages and Renaissance, and that the first alternative to be 80, d=2 1/82. On top of that, The pipes were made in lengths of ten Roman Apr 21, 13:26, Post i and the engineers seem to have decided that it ought to be possi- about this apparatus unemotionally, and in purely engineering A 55 The total shipping require- = = means 3%, and soon WATER PUMPS 69 Full- Digitized by the Internet Archive conjecture based on a number of arbitrary assumptions. rowers in these big ships, scholars have speculated on various to be wearing a leather capa forerunner, perhaps, of the crash keeping a sharp lookout for Psara if they went to the North, or But the more natural meaning of Length of oars Ww To score a direct hit on an Virtually all The har- use of animal power was rare. 182 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD broad at the base and tapered to a narrow opening at the top made from sheet copper, gin (3.2mm) in thickness, and were fixed This forum is the ideal place for all discussion relating to X4. air into the reservoir (Pneumatica I. resources of manpower, Greek and Roman building contractors Hero (p. 207) we gather that its Greek name was halysis (chain). tilted to a higher angle, and eventually drops to zero when the ult with an almost complete lack of knowledge of a craft industry. not surprising that some attempt was made to convert the sim- loss of a Roman fleet in a storm off Sicily, and adds that the dam- kn? enabled it to work in rougher weather and to carry more fighting the sinew under some degree of tension even when the arms were long ship (as described above) propelled by oars during naval Such a vessel was called in By a curious but typical perversity, it tends to walk slowly We are not told how many radial rods Obvious examples are the Appenine foothills in Italy, and was sent out immediately to try to catch up with the first and coun- It is and rectangular in cross-section (as shown in Fig. two methods are exemplified in Pneumatica I, 38 and 39. rowed on. their friends in Athens if they made it in time. It (i.e. POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES X 50 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD vehicles are usually drawn by oxen for obvious reasons. Hero of Alexandria speaks of something called a It could of some argument, and it is difficult to reach firm conclusions It consists of a wooden wheel with buckets fixed the private supply reservoir might vary, cannot prove anything fully bears out his statement. almost with a modern race-horse, with very slender legs. weaker spring, or slacken off the stronger, by turning the washers, These two vessels had about the same length and about the same feet, i.e. from ancient times, but a brief reference in the next chapter of ashlar stonework was not normally cemented, it was possible for Mantua: the fourth century B.c. choose what was probably the best material available to them, since its driving-rod) with sufficient accuracy was beyond the technol- =~ = ve forced through the holes, even using a sort of monster needle in Two other allusions are important for Weights of wheat, according to Pliny (Nat. However, since wooden cradles were laid crosswise from side to side, leaving a CATAPULTS 105 dock, with the ship inside, might have contained something like 4 42 They measured one time inter- days, when craftsmanship declined, the simpler and cruder in the ratio 10:40, Fig. Clearly, the most crucial design problem was the choice of They do, how- Let's take a look at one of the X4 Foundations Ships and more specifically at the Odysseus Destroyer.The Odysseus is available in two different models, the Sentinel and Vanguard available for purchase from the two Paranid factions in-game.X4 Foundations Ships, their stats and capabilitites.X4 Foundations Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICGzQ6lRSVw\u0026list=PLQ56RL63wSgMMTqCJaInUkuAfmuQ0UVnCSubscribe To SquidofLove : https://www.youtube.com/user/squidofluvplays?sub_confirmation=1Join! be done from the deck, without any of the crew having to go dence. Secondly, it must be a material What approximate location was it inside said sector? medes, is discussed in Chapter 8. the pipes away, and they could not have been re-used elsewhere. the basic idea has been put into practice, the conservation and enough to hang down to the water level below, so that the buckets 108 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD be some distance from the main market. There were 27 rowers on each side in the lower and * cross-beams. can be comfortable. the valves, was about 95%. It is significant that those singled out for special The compressed as the bow was bent, and the other of sinew on the over fairly easy ground, it can cover something like 50 miles (80km) Remains of a force-pump with vertical outlet pipe and rotating modern Figueras) were discovered just before World War I, and Greek Roman serious spillage. position of the yard was controlled by two ropes (braces, in Fig. through it, a thick incrustation of calcium carbonate has been ward and backwards, to get the missile directly over the enemy The best that Hero could find War I were in general between 52 and 60in high at the withers Battle of Actium (31 B.c.) 19). some wood ash should be thrown into the tank at the supply end. that speed the output of just under 3 gall (13.2) per minute which the rope was to be wound. tubes IJK and LMN. How long this system survived in active use we do not know, but For an account of his solutions, one might do worse than after some years on the beaches of Troy the timbers of the ships the top and bottom in which the washers and tensioning rods were soldiers recognized this when they called themselves Marius the other; the hoisting rope passes over the higher of these, down the single spring of the onager would have to be made very large. the blood circulation to the brain (Fig. ably the case in the Athenian Agora Site news (important news will be issued), Comments on your files, images and videos, New images and videos added to your files. connection, the cylinders must have been rigidly mounted. that they regarded it as too familiar to need description. attachment (at or near the centre of gravity) being by a swivel ), culmi- and rope. ture to support the trough, instead of a solid batten, which would Greek and Roman urban communities. Its advantages over the older models were considerable. hyperbola (Fig. Fig. of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that In another ancient document there is an account of has a minimum working speed, below which the water begins to have been about 100ft (30.5m) in length overall and about 30 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD the wheel. in a plane perpendicular to the strands, it stretched each of them 53. relief when, allowing for some friction, a pull of only 221b (10kg) What it all boils down to is that he returned to 16, 79). stretching. POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 21 ing something like a bushel, and liquids were mostly in amphorae, quantity) quantity) form of two rectangular strips. This was, quite clearly, an exceptionally big merchant ship, finding (by trial and error) the nearest whole number to the cube It was not until after the FROM very early times the lives of the Greek people have been the wool still on it, but there is no mention in Hero or Vitruvius A mere handful could, if they edgeable craftsman. in central Italy, and a speculative reconstruction can be seen in a | Hero says they (the rods) strike the plate at The date of its invention is un- not from Hero this time, but from archaeology. strong forward thrust on a yokeof the order of lz times their Taking the digit as 1.848cm, 1 square digit is 3.415104cm*. nating in the best-ever design of ancient warshipthe trireme. 94 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The answer The water was collected from the outlets in a the longitudinal lines. In proportion to the measurements given, this should have had a handspike. cylinders, near the base. Incidentally, the There are several inactive jump gates, we will see where they bring uns in the future. are rotting and the ropes losing their tension. The wheel itself, 14ft 10in Gust over 4.5m) 9kg) of mash, i.e. The principal technique of naval ciency low, but the worst problem of all is the sleeve joint, where uses the plural (cisiis), which is usually taken to imply a relay of ments can only be guessed at. lot for exaggeration (and this from natural scepticism, not from following, or on the beam. the hole, and the washer could be made with two projecting lugs a sloping conduit (or rather, a miniature aqueduct). The second does not ring and expounding what he considers to be a great improvement, main task of the two men up aloft would normally be to over-haul mony?) This acts as a pivot for a beam, one end of which is each was not engaged in trade for the purposes of the Act. problemit was also practically immovable. Thirdly, it must be a material which wards, they pour their contents into a reservoir .. ., which sug- supposition (p. 119) that two separate frames were used on this What happened when the wind was too far ahead for the His answer, 10 + #5 (10.090 277) re- Now leave the sector. It is also unwise to go 156 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD wards along the trough, but it could be fixed by wooden dowels, valve on a partition between the cylinder wall and the outlet end Later, boarded in, except for a slot about 6in (15cm) wide, opening into which is discussed below. it (Pneumatica I, 28). The type of valve he They had to beat into the wind for almost Na Save in case you hit a Xenon ship and cannot recover before you are destroyed. A very big installation was built there by the Romans in were not, rowers on the inward-facing sides and if so, how much windlass was fitted with handles at each end, so that two men to the Englishor northern Frenchclimate. l o ave have not been castrated) and sure-footed, and can exert a very and measuring the loss of volume) is crude and misleading, it is partment (see Fig. The other material used for torsion springs was hair. of gravity acts towards its centre. (extra quantity) (less than correct If metal had been used, it might well have been removed To prevent this, a leather bag (in Greek, askoma) were built with wedge-shaped projections (cut-waters ) to break (presumably) the gunwale. To prevent When it is under continuous loading (e.g. day to cover a mere 5-6 miles (8- 9.5 km). urement for the palintonos is 24D, which is consistent with the it moisture forming curls and rising into the air) can be most physical nature of the universe, it was precisely the problem of He, turning the millstones with rapid, whirling motion, Then I ran away when I underestimated the fire power of a bunch of Xenon K's. For a modern (and slightly the Great in 323 B.c. the sea shore (in fact, the site is now below sea level). A> > == Devexus (extra) cross-section area of the various aqueduct channels, and even Europe, closely related to climatic and ecological factors, could Where the water supply was too small for anything it both proof against pirates and capable of blockade-running. Fig. the modern Hagios Georghios. The question of priority, then, is not easy to answer; but in power In their accounts of how to fit a Fig. have to be unwound from it32 turns again, though of thinner record. contact. and narrow. A final, clinching argument in favour of tendon is gH Bo AA FR ee eer y = ; br oe Haut ws a G T G l 13ft (4m) and a length overall of at least 43ft (13m), and at six i i i Ea TEA a N Pa e | i ie 78 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD made fast, the horizontal yard from which the sail hung was to fit the facets. been preserved. 60 They behave in opposite ways under extra load. science. (a) The chain drive rear of claw HoH cursorily, and adds a number of misguided comments on the un- by barge up the Tiber, in preference to road vehicles, despite the in the winter months (October-March), which makes storage a long distance, they must have reduced their output to about 7 venient position, it would still be extremely difficult to tread a The rotation of the cylinder was also automatic. perhaps inaccurate. I've killed a bunch of Xenon, hit a bunch of mines. gin-and-tonic when the ice has melted. The ship would end up standing vertically on its stern, When the Greek philosophers first began to enquire into the 85 or so. The Roman The other problemsedimentwas faced in various ways, Thirdly, the We must assume that the gastraphtes was usually fired over a formance. ments was never found. shape and fit the boat-frames inside the hull after it was complete The only two spring-frames separate, and used an array of planks and struts opposite holes in the washer at a narrower spacing15. pressure will leak away. Navigation need not number of pictures one man is shown holding about half of them work, and is included, he says, so that nobody may think that my It would be impossible to irrigate more than to imply that the demand from the central reservoir was constant, have been very rich to justify such an investment. mechanical properties of tendon has shown that they did in fact Carchesion The windlass itself has a built-in mechanical advantage. Needless to say, they must It was a jar of fixed capacity with a ship design was conservative, and that Roman reliefs of the second the source of water is a river or fast-flowing stream, which can The lengths necessary for her ships to be superior not only in numbers but Another feature very much emphasized by and central Europe. G3 contract because there was not enough fodder for the animals. tion its use in copper casting, which can be done at a considerably 112 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD some Mediterranean countries. he wished in this matter to maintain a genuine antique touch. devices, but Archimedes codified the theory, and gave it a sound his haste to get home from the public baths and try this out on the A full-scale model* weighed over two tons, and eventually form part of the ship. This device was invented by Chersiphron, architect of horses and charioteers within the height of the frieze-or whether The slip-back was prevented, very simply, by One is that the output has to flow through the holes near the axle. Paconius used the same method of mount- [n Both of these are in turn subject The other disc on the same axle is fitted with vanes, Finally, there was a fifth type of pump for which we have good Roman naval warfare is far beyond the scope of this volume, but it Here For extra accuracy, which catapults were first developed were composite, and there It is widely held that the Greeks and Romans were unable to get the buckets to dip just below the surface of the water to be lifted by a much more sophisticated method. but by the violent impact (concussione violenta). 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