Author: Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: siege, engines, catapults, section, crossbow, additional, book
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-03-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0486287203
ISBN-13: 9780486287201

This fascinating study, the only book devoted exclusively to the crossbow, traces its use as a military and sporting weapon as well as its construction and management in medieval and modern times. The work also covers such related weapons as the balista, catapult, Turkish bow, and more. Over 240 illustrations.

Author: Steven Vogel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: nature, people, worlds, mechanical, paws, catapults, cats
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0393319903
ISBN-13: 9780393319903

"Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike."—R. McNeill Alexander, NatureNature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature’s angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technology goes around on wheels—and on rotating pulleys, gears, shafts, and cams—yet in nature only the tiny propellers of b

Author: Richard Middleton
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: blowguns, bullet, bows, airguns, crossbows, catapults, guide, man, powered, bullets, practical
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2005-09-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0811701565
ISBN-13: 9780811701563

Author: Richard Middleton
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: stonebows, musketballs, blowpipes, airguns, bulletbows, catapults, experiments, man, guide, powered, weapons, ammunition, practical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-10-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1602391475
ISBN-13: 9781602391475

David slew Goliath with his slingshot: for millennia that was the norm, as men used a variety of non-explosive weapons to fire small stones and carefully rounded bullets of clay, glass, and even steel and lead. This unusual study explores in practical detail the many ways, old and new, in which man shot projectiles without recourse to gunpowder. They include the bow and arrow, a favorite for the last 10,000 years; pump-up air guns; blowpipes; catapults; and homemade lead musketballs. There’s information on ammunition and velocity, as well as a lively personal narrative filled with humor and

Authors:Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods,
Publisher: Runestone Press
Keywords: ancient, technology, catapults, clubs, warfare
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-10
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822529998
ISBN-13: 9780822529996