Catapults Essay

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History: The Mangonel is the catapult we built and used. The mangonel was built/invented in 400 BC. The Romans were the ones that ended up inventing this Mangonel Catapult design. These catapults were used by the Romans obviously, and they were used for battles because they could reach up to 1,300ft back then. The catapult that my group and I built has a rectangular base. On one end of the rectangle we have boards that stand straight up. These two boards that are standing up has a block, and we have a arm that you pull back that has bunge cords from the rectangle frame to the arm, and you pull back then let go of the arm and the arm swings the object. Back then the objects would have been rocks and thing like this for the Romans to hurt or kill the enemy. Now no one exactly knows where specifically the Romans built it, but it could have been in Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. ("History of Catapults - Physics of Catapults." History of Catapults - Physics of Catapults. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2015.) …show more content…

N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2015.) Pro & Cons: Advantages- The first advantage of our Mangonel type catapult was that it was and is well used for more of horizontal distance, and back during the Romans time it was used to knock walls down. In our case it was well used for throwing it quickly and getting distance rather fast. ("Catapult Physics." Real World Physics Problems. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2015.) Advantage- was when we wanted to adjust how far we wanted the baseball to go we could. All we had to do was just pull our arm back to where we wanted to a certain spot instead of just having one place to throw every time. If we wanted to throw the ball really far then we pull the arm back as far as we can and release it. If we wanted more accuracy for short range we did not pull the arm back as

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