Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

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The slider passed through the field frames of the weapon, in which were located the torsion springs (rope made of animal sinew), which were twisted around the bow arms, which in turn, were attached to the bowstring.

It was used, just before the start of the Empire, by Julius Caesar during his conquest of Gaul and on both of his campaigns in subduing Britain.

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Ballast was also a component used in early model automobile engines that lowered the supply voltage to the ignition system after the engine had been started. Starting the engine requires a significant amount of electrical current from the battery, resulting in an equally significant voltage drop. To allow the engine to start, the ignition system was designed to operate on this lower voltage. But once the vehicle was started and the starter disengaged, the normal operating voltage was too high for the ignition system. To avoid this problem, a ballast resistor was inserted in series with the ignition system, resulting in two different operating voltages for the starting and ignition systems.

In most 220-240V ballasts, the capacitor isn't incorporated inside the ballast like in North American ballasts, but is wired in parallel or in series with the ballast. The cheiroballistra and the manuballista are held by many archaeologists to be the same weapon. [ citation needed] The difference in name may be attributable to the different languages spoken in the Empire. Latin remained the official language in the Western Empire, but the Eastern Empire predominantly used Greek, which added an extra 'r' to the word ballista. The most common types of ballasts are magnetic and electronic, and they come in several start technologies to suit different purposes. After the absorption of the Ancient Greek city-states into the Roman Republic in 146 BC, the highly advanced Greek technology began to spread across many areas of Roman influence. This included the great military machine advances the Greeks had made (most notably by Dionysus of Syracuse), as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments.in gliding, weights added to maximise the average speed in cross-country competition, especially when thermal convection is strong While not a direct descendant mechanically, the concept and naming continues on as arbalest crossbows ( arcus 'bow' + ballista). The sewers cover most of the Lower City, so it would only make sense that there are quite a few entrances to it, some harder to find than others. Regardless of what method you take to enter the sewers, you’ll most likely get an encounter or two, so it doesn’t matter too much which entrance you take, but we suggest going through the Elfsong Tavern as there are a couple of quests you can complete along the way. However, while it remained less and less popular as more efficient siege engines such as the trebuchet and the mangonel became widespread, the Ballista still retained some use in Medieval Siege Warfare, especially by city and castle garrisons, until it became finally extinguished by the more convenient medieval canons, already omnipresent in all major European Catholic cities by the first half of the 14th century. Fischer, Bernd Jürgen (1999). Albania At War, 1939–1945. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-141-4.

Current limiting [ edit ] A typical 230V, 50hz series choke ballast (inductor) used in older lighting. This example is used for a tanning lamp. It requires a starter switch (below). A lamp starter, required with some inductor type ballasts. It connects the two ends of the lamp to preheat them for one second before lighting.Bieber, Florian; Daskalovski, Zidas (2004). Understanding the War in Kosovo. Routledge. p.58. ISBN 978-1-13576-155-4. Internal Ballistics– Internal ballistic is about Motion of the projectile in the bore of the weapon.

The Ballists in Kosovo and Vardar region rose to prominence following the capitulation of Italy in September 1943. They seized Struga and Debar from the Italians on 9 September 1943, taking much of the military equipment left behind. [40] Following the establishment of the Albanian Kingdom, leading members of the Balli Kombetar from Kosovo became involved in forming the new government. On 6 November 1943, Berlin announced that the regents and the assembly had formed a government headed by Kosovar Albanian Rexhep Mitrovica, [41] who had joined the Balli Kombëtar resistance movement in 1942 and spent much of the Italian period in prison in Porto Romano near Durrës. [42] Mitrovica's cabinet, most of whom had credentials as nationalists as well as some German or Austrian connection, included Xhafer Deva. [43] Deva, a leading Ballist also from Kosovo, was appointed Minister of the Interior in the Government of Rexhep Mitrovica and collaborated with the Germans to oppose the spread of Communist forces in the north, [44] effectively giving him direct command over the forces of the new government. [45] The fighting in Kosovo took on an ethnic and ideological basis with the Albanian Balli Kombetar forces fighting the predominantly Serb Partisans.

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Owen Pearson (2006b). Albania as Dictatorship and Democracy. Bloomsbury Academic. p.228. ISBN 978-1-84511-105-2.