Ancient Rome at the Maritime Museum

 

Recently L won a prize in an "Ask the scientist" competition with the WA Maritime Museum. Today we went along to collect the prize and to have a look at the Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers temporary exhibition. 

The exhibition is pretty cool and has many working models of Roman machines. The first section showed machines used to build the Colosseum, aqueducts and other structures. 

Waterwheel

Crane

Gears

Water clock

There were lots of uniforms that Roman soldiers would have worn.

There were several types of catapults and battering rams.

This model showed how lions and gladiators were raised up to the floor of the Colosseum arena in a lift using pulleys, gears and trapdoors.

This is the front of a ship with an attachment that could be lowered to board an enemy vessel. The big spike on the end tore into the deck and held the ships together whilst soldiers poured onboard.