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Re: Trebuchet (was: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold)
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:30:24 GMT
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Jason Catena wrote:
> I just watched the Siege Weapons edition of the Nova "Secrets of Lost Empires"
> miniseries on PBS. Basically, the hour-long show focused on the efforts of two
> groups of people to build two slightly different trebuchets using medieval
> methods, and knock down a typical rubble-filled masonry-shell wall.
Just read an article (I think it was in Smithsonian magazine) about this
"experiment". I can look it up if anyone missed the special.
> It is 10.3 bricks high without the mast, which has its axis of rotation a bit
> more than halfway towards the counterweight side. It rolls on four of the thick
> 4x4 wheels--which I strongly recommend, since allowing it to move increases the
> range by up to a half. Also, it's really cool to watch it roll backwards in
> steps as the counterweight swings.
Have you observed the range difference with a rolling and non-rolling
LEGO model? The article mentioned that they found that the rolling did
in fact make a difference, just curious how observable that was in a
model.
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) Alas, I was unable to get it to fire properly often enough to make that observation. The figure of "by a half" I got from the wooden model they used in the Nova special, which fired 30 feet when rolling, versus 20 feet when stationary. Another (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I just watched the Siege Weapons edition of the Nova "Secrets of Lost Empires" miniseries on PBS. Basically, the hour-long show focused on the efforts of two groups of people to build two slightly different trebuchets using medieval methods, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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