>Each ship contained a rotating statue platform. One platform was mounted on caged bronze balls and is the earliest example of the thrust ball bearing previously believed to have been first envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci but only developed much later”
whoa, that’s a discovery!
>Piston pumps (ctesibica machina) supplied the two ships with hot and cold running water via lead pipes”
…so, basically still 1950’s european habitats?
>Both ships had several hand-operated bilge pumps that worked like a modern bucket dredge, the oldest example of this type of bilge pump ever found”
interesting, but that’s not all
>Mussolini ordered Guido Ucelli to drain the lake and recover the ships. An ancient Roman underground water conduit linking the lake to farms outside the crater was reactivated avoiding the possible flooding of the temple of Diana.
>Weapons, coins, decorations, tools, fish hooks, keys emerged; the position of each find was noted, and every detail was analyzed. On 7 September, after lowering the water level by twenty-two meters, the first ship emerged completely and at the end of January 1930, the second one emerged too
the end?
>On the night between May 31 and June 1, 1944, a violent fire ravaged the museum, destroying the ships: only what had previously been brought to Rome was saved.
There are some good photos in there, a tech-marvel, really, height of luxury
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>Each ship contained a rotating statue platform. One platform was mounted on caged bronze balls and is the earliest example of the thrust ball bearing previously believed to have been first envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci but only developed much later”
whoa, that’s a discovery!
>Piston pumps (ctesibica machina) supplied the two ships with hot and cold running water via lead pipes”
…so, basically still 1950’s european habitats?
>Both ships had several hand-operated bilge pumps that worked like a modern bucket dredge, the oldest example of this type of bilge pump ever found”
interesting, but that’s not all
>Mussolini ordered Guido Ucelli to drain the lake and recover the ships. An ancient Roman underground water conduit linking the lake to farms outside the crater was reactivated avoiding the possible flooding of the temple of Diana.
>Weapons, coins, decorations, tools, fish hooks, keys emerged; the position of each find was noted, and every detail was analyzed. On 7 September, after lowering the water level by twenty-two meters, the first ship emerged completely and at the end of January 1930, the second one emerged too
the end?
>On the night between May 31 and June 1, 1944, a violent fire ravaged the museum, destroying the ships: only what had previously been brought to Rome was saved.
There are some good photos in there, a tech-marvel, really, height of luxury