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Does the spring mader on a catupult?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Most catapult's store their energy in twisted ropes, wound tightly by a wheel crank on the side of the catapult. The arm of the catapult is in between the two wound ropes. When a lever releases the gear attached to the rope, the rope unwinds, sending the arm of the catapult forward violently (flinging it's contents vast distances).

Tribuchet's are a later more advanced manual artillery system. It used counter weight released by a pulley to fling massive boulders thousands of feet. But there is no real-world spring catapult. Most use ropes or counterweight and are far more capable.

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15y ago

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