Artificio de Juanelo

Re:Artificio de Juanelo by 3by7 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:29PM (#39909207)

3D animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s

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Re:Artificio de Juanelo by bragr on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @04:46PM (#39910696)

The power transmission to the spoons remind me of the rod line powered jack pumps in early oil fields. You can still find 100 year old wells with that kind of power distribution but they are rare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfTfmGIVl4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-k_Ip8RgIA

https://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/Central%20...

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Re:Artificio de Juanelo by resolutebat on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:07PM (#39910853)

Whoah. That's an excellent video, and it shows how this was far more complicated than the simplified diagram in Wikipedia: the device was over 300 meters long!

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Re:Artificio de Juanelo by riffraff on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @12:53AM (#39913714)

Indeed, the diagram (and the wiki text too?) don't make it clear how many towers were involved, so it looks a more complicated solution that would be needed.

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