History of catapults
Posted on | August 26, 2009 | No Comments
Does anyone know when did catapults originate? In reality, catapults originated in China around the 3rd and 4th BC. The meaning of catapult is that it is an appliance that stores energy and releases the energy to fire a projectile. Catapults look like a big crossbow and they were nearly 8 feet tall. Over the years these crossbows became bigger and bigger and at first these were like handheld weapons called Belly-Bow and from then on it got much larger and became something like a stand crossbow. Later on that also changed, the size and shapes also changed and there were changes on how they were operated also.
Finally this has emerged into something which is mounted on a pivot like structure and it is like a swinging arm and the catapult is emerged from this, actually this does not fire the projectile, but it moves the arm holding the projectile. Thus catapults were used in the Middle Ages by the people and as these were large and huge, they were used to demolish the walls of the castle, but catapults were there even before the origin of castles. Now they have developed the catapults into various designs and these have become user friendly now and it is easier to carry too.
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