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Polybolos

Ancient Greek siege engine

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polybolos. The Repeating Catapult of Dionysius Reconstructed Polybolos in action Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback

Polybolos

Ballista

Ancient ranged weapon

developed into a smaller precision weapon, the scorpio, and possibly the polybolos. The early ballistae in Ancient Greece were developed from two weapons

Ballista

Mughal Empire

1526–1857 empire in South Asia

worked for Akbar, developed an early multi-gun shot. As opposed to the polybolos and repeating crossbows used earlier in ancient Greece and China, respectively

Mughal Empire

Mughal_Empire

Greek and Roman artillery

Artillery for shooting large arrows, bolts or spherical stones or metal balls

stone throwers (palintona) Hellenistic era semi-automatic bolt shooter (polybolos) Roman imperial era 1-talent (75-pounder) ballista used in siege warfare

Greek and Roman artillery

Greek_and_Roman_artillery

Crossbow

Bow-like ranged weapon

Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Ōyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager

Crossbow

Chain gun

Firearm mechanism that uses an external source of power to cycle the firearm

In practice, chain guns usually have two or three set firing speeds. Polybolos with a chain gun Revolver cannon Rotary cannon, often confused Richardson

Chain gun

Chain_gun

Hellenistic period

Period of eastern Mediterranean history from 323 to 30 BC

360 BC) and Dionysios of Alexandria designed a repeating ballista, the Polybolos. Preserved examples of ball projectiles range from 4.4 to 78 kg (9.7 to

Hellenistic period

Hellenistic_period

List of lost inventions

Technologies whose capabilities can no longer be produced in their original form

Roman ship partly down in to the water during the siege of Syracuse. Polybolos, an ancient Greek repeating ballista. A MythBusters episode built and

List of lost inventions

List_of_lost_inventions

Repeating crossbow

Type of weapon invented in China

in which case even a small wound might prove fatal. Cheiroballistra Polybolos Rapid fire crossbow Panjagan Slurbow Loades 2018, p. 12. Lin, Yun. "History

Repeating crossbow

Repeating_crossbow

List of premodern combat weapons

(Roman) Oxybeles, oxyvelis ballista (Greek) Palintonon catapult (Greek) Polybolos, polyvolos repeating ballista (Greek) Trebuchet (European, Asian) Pen

List of premodern combat weapons

List_of_premodern_combat_weapons

Arbalest

Form of medieval crossbow

Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Ōyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager

Arbalest

List of siege engines

trigger. Helepolis 305 BC Rhodes Greek siege tower first used in Rhodes. Polybolos 289 BC Greece A siege engine with torsion mechanism, drawing its power

List of siege engines

List_of_siege_engines

Chain drive

Way of transmitting mechanical power

transmitted. The oldest known application of a chain drive appears in the Polybolos, described by the Greek engineer Philon of Byzantium (3rd century BC)

Chain drive

Chain_drive

Leonardo's crossbow

Series of shooting weapon schematics by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci Codex Atlanticus Cheiroballistra Lever action firearms Polybolos Repeating crossbow Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci (in Italian)

Leonardo's crossbow

Leonardo's_crossbow

Panjagan

Military technology used by the Sassanid Persian military

Hephthalites, who were known for their agile cavalrymen. List of lost inventions Polybolos Repeating crossbow, an ancient Chinese weapon Mad minute, a pre-WWI British

Panjagan

Torsion siege engine

Type of artillery relying on a twisting force to launch projectiles

Warwick Castle, England. Cheiroballista. Espringal side view and rear view. Polybolos & cheiroballista. Arsenal of ancient mechanical artillery in the Saalburg

Torsion siege engine

Torsion_siege_engine

Ōyumi

Ancient Japanese artillery piece

Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Ōyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager

Ōyumi

Catapult

Pre-gunpowder projectile-launching device

Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Ōyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager

Catapult

Roman siege engines

Adapted from Hellenistic siege technology

done into the existence of the self-loading, serial repeating scorpio or polybolos. Legionaries on either side would continuously keep turning cranks which

Roman siege engines

Roman_siege_engines

List of Chinese inventions

century BC) described a chain drive and windlass used in the operation of a polybolos (a repeating ballista), "but the chain drive did not continuously transmit

List of Chinese inventions

List_of_Chinese_inventions

Mughal artillery

Artillery used by the Mughal empire

a cow. Shirazi also developed an early multi-gun shot. Similar to the polybolos and repeating crossbows which were used in ancient Greece and China respectively

Mughal artillery

Mughal_artillery

Technological history of the Roman military

innovation was common (such as the development of the ballista into the polybolos or repeating ballista). The traditional view is that their reliance on

Technological history of the Roman military

Technological_history_of_the_Roman_military

Index of ancient Greece-related articles

Polos Polos Painter Polus Polyaenus of Lampsacus Polyandrion Polybius Polybolos Polybotes Polybus (physician) Polybus of Corinth Polybus of Sicyon Polybus

Index of ancient Greece-related articles

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