A reconstruction of the Greek-Roman repeating catapult

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-45

  Rossi, Cesare ^a   Russo, Flavio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancient automatic weapons; History of Engineering; Mechanism reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT AUTOMATIC WEAPONS; ANCIENT GREEKS; WORKING CYCLE; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

REPAIR;

EID: 70350570663     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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