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A trebuchet [nb 1] (French: trébuchet) is a type of catapult [5] that uses a rotating arm with a sling attached to the tip to launch a projectile. It was a common powerful siege engine until the advent of gunpowder. The design of a trebuchet allows it to launch projectiles of greater weights and further distances than that of a traditional ...
The floating arm trebuchet is a counterweight siege weapon which is a modern variation [1] of the medieval trebuchet. Their defining feature is free movement of an axle on the throwing arm, [2] and a linear drop channel for the counterweight. The design and construction of such machines is a popular project assignment in post-secondary ...
Counterweight trebuchet: The earliest written record of the counterweight trebuchet, a vastly more powerful design than the simple traction trebuchet, [11] appears in the work of the 12th-century historian Niketas Choniates.
The trebuchet, to understate it slightly, does not have that level of precision targeting. ... First used in battle in the 4th century B.C., its basic design involves a heavy weight that drops and ...
A simplified trebuchet, where the trebuchet's single counterweight is split, swinging on either side of a central support post. Leonardo da Vinci's catapult Leonardo da Vinci sought to improve the efficiency and range of earlier designs. His design incorporated a large wooden leaf spring as an accumulator to power the catapult.
The mangonel, also called the traction trebuchet, was a type of trebuchet used in Ancient China starting from the Warring States period, and later across Eurasia by the 6th century AD. Unlike the later counterweight trebuchet , the mangonel operated on manpower-pulling cords attached to a lever and sling to launch projectiles.
Medieval designs include a large number of catapults such as the mangonel, onager, the ballista, the traction trebuchet (first designed in China in the 3rd century BC and brought over to Europe in the 4th century AD), and the counterweight trebuchet (first described by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi in the 12th century, though of unknown origin ...
The trebuchet’s destructive force caused engineers to thicken walls, round out towers, and to redesign fortifications so that they could employ trebuchets for defense. The Ayyubids between 1196 and 1218 built towers mounted with massive trebuchets, which hypothetically would use their height advantage to take out opposing siege engines. [ 1 ]