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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polybolos. The Repeating Catapult of Dionysius Reconstructed Polybolos in action Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback...
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    Ballista (section Polybolos)
    developed into a smaller precision weapon, the scorpio, and possibly the polybolos. The early ballistae in Ancient Greece were developed from two weapons...
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    stone throwers (palintona) Hellenistic era semi-automatic bolt shooter (polybolos) Roman imperial era 1-talent (75-pounder) ballista used in siege warfare...
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    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...
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     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...
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    prototype multiple-barrel externally driven machine gun using a chain. Polybolos Rotary cannon, often confused with a chain gun. Richardson & Peacock,...
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    / couillard Mangonel Via elasticity Catapult Onager Ballista Scorpion Polybolos Bed crossbow Via Explosive propulsion Cannon (e.g. Wuwei Bronze Cannon)...
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    in which case even a small wound might prove fatal. Cheiroballistra Polybolos Rapid fire crossbow Panjagan Loades 2018. Lin, Yun. "History of the Crossbow...
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    Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager...
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  • Roman ship partly down in to the water during the siege of Syracuse. Polybolos, an ancient Greek repeating ballista. A MythBusters episode built and...
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    Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager...
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  • (Roman) Oxybeles, oxyvelis ballista (Greek) Palintonon catapult (Greek) Polybolos, polyvolos repeating ballista (Greek) Trebuchet (European, Asian) Pen...
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    Ancient mechanical artillery: Catapults (standing), the chain drive of Polybolos (bottom center), Gastraphetes (on wall)...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    transmitted. The oldest known application of a chain drive appears in the Polybolos, described by the Greek engineer Philon of Byzantium (3rd century BC)...
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    Leonardo da Vinci Codex Atlanticus Cheiroballistra Lever action firearms Polybolos Repeating crossbow Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci (in Italian)...
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  • Crew-served arrow-throwers Ballista Carroballista Catapulta Oxybeles Oyumi Polybolos Scorpio Crew-served stone-throwers Catapult Lithobolos Mangonel Onager...
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  • done into the existence of the self-loading, serial repeating scorpio or polybolos. Legionaries on either side would continuously keep turning cranks which...
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    Warwick Castle, England. Cheiroballista. Espringal side view and rear view. Polybolos & cheiroballista. Arsenal of ancient mechanical artillery in the Saalburg...
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    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...
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  • innovation was common (such as the development of the ballista into the polybolos or repeating ballista). The traditional view is that their reliance on...
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  • by a cow. Shirazi also developed an early multi-gun shot. Unlike the polybolos and repeating crossbows which used in ancient Greece and China respectively...
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  • Polos Polos Painter Polus Polyaenus of Lampsacus Polyandrion Polybius Polybolos Polybotes Polybus (physician) Polybus of Corinth Polybus of Sicyon Polybus...
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