Throwing weapons, Battery mechanisms — engraving

'ARTILLERY'.

Battery mechanisms. Catapults and other throwing weapons of antiquity.

In the engraving, Oxybeles (easel bows), Euthyton (torsion mechanism for arrows), Trebuchet (trebuchet) throwing machine for stones, Onager (catapult with a spoon). Rams and other battering rams.

Throwing weapons are ancient ranged weapons based on human muscular strength, gravity, and the elastic properties of wood, metal or other materials. Consists of two components, a projectile and a throwing device.

From 'The National Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge',  by writers of Eminence in Literature, Published by William Mackenzie, London  (1887).

Technique, Material: Steel engraving / Paper
Artist: ,  Engraver: 
Date: London, 1887. 
Size: 24,4 x 15,8 cm.