Subject: Did anything like Wile E. Coyote's catapults ever exist?
Date: Mon Sep 5 00:00:44 2005
Posted by Martin
Grade level: grad (science)
School: No school entered.
City: Ft. Worth State/Province: TX
Country: USA
Area of science: Science History
ID: 1125896444.Sh
Message:
The standard Acme catapult you see in the Roadrunner cartoons uses a large
flexion arm to throw a rock. From my other research, I've only found
ballista-type weapons using flexion; was there any "catapult-style" seige weapon
that worked this way?
Re: Did anything like Wile E. Coyote's catapults ever exist?
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