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Polybolos

The polybolos (the name means "multi-thrower" in Greek) was an ancient Greek repeating ballista, reputedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria (a 3rd-century BC Greek engineer at the Rhodes arsenal,) and used in antiquity. The polybolos was not a crossbow since it used a torsion mechanism, drawing its power from twisted sinew-bundles. However the earlier…

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Polybolos

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples13
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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Polybolos

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related to Design · 9
Polybolos → As, At, Greek, Once, The, This, Upon, When, With
related to External links · 4
Polybolos → Archived, DionysiusReconstructed Polybolos, The Repeating Catapult, Wayback Machine

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bolt mechanism mensa bc similar crossbow windlass drawstring chain used greek back rotated repeating weapon torsion philo ballista catapult string

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Polybolosrelated to DesignThe0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignWhen0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignAt0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignOnce0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignWith0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignAs0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignThis0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignUpon0.60section
Polybolosrelated to DesignGreek0.60section
Polybolosrelated to External linksThe Repeating Catapult0.60section
Polybolosrelated to External linksDionysiusReconstructed Polybolos0.60section
Polybolosrelated to External linksArchived0.60section

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