James Murphy demonstrates how a small version of his Murphy Mover works. He’s looking for help to write a technical article on the invention to get more serious study of it.
James Murphy demonstrates how a small version of his Murphy Mover works. He’s looking for help to write a technical article on the invention to get more serious study of it.
Pyramids were built with concrete rather than rocks, scientists claim
UK Times Online | Today | Chalres Bremner
Posted on 12/01/2006 6:55:23 PM EST by Rodney King
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Riddle Of The Great Pyramids Of Giza:
Professor Finds Some Building Blocks Were Concrete
www.sciencedaily.com | December 9, 2006 | Drexel University
Posted on 12/09/2006 7:41:35 PM EST by Maelstorm
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This will work for horizontal movement. Once it gets moving it ought to be easy to keep it going, although steering might be a problem.
“I would swing so high that the back legs would come off the ground, then the front legs would come off the ground.”
Years later, as he looked back on it, he realized what was happening - gravity acting on his weight made the swing set walk.
He mused on that thought and ended up with his invention, the Murphy Mover.
Clever. Putting blocks under the lifted legs must be an exciting job...
While somewhat interesting, it doesn't answer the question of how the stones were cut, transported to and from the barges (plus the trip by water), and set with such accuracy at the rate of more than one stone a minute (one estimate I've read is one stone every ten seconds) for twenty years.Pyramid Construction Riddle Solved?Osvaldo Falesiedi, an amateur Egyptologist has shaken the Italian scientific community with his hypothesis on how the pyramids were built. He bases his theory on cradle-like objects discovered by archaeologists in the 19th century under the foundations of the Thutmosi II and Hatshepsut temples in Egypt. Bolstering the cradle theory are ancient 5th-century B.C. writings, in which Herodotus mentions "machines made of small woods."
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I saw the Murphy Mover being demonstrated on TV the other night.
He's looking for help$
Contact Myth Busters, they just did one on swings.
I posted this on another pyramid-building thread once before...
I read a fun book about along those lines. The ancient Egyptians may have built simple cranes for the purposes of transporting limestone blocks. The book title, which is the first difficult bit to swallow, is:
"HOW TO BUILD A FLYING SAUCER: AND OTHER PROPOSALS IN SPECULATIVE ENGINEERING"
by T. B. Pawlicki
includes sketches for cranes that could have transported the pyramid stones to Giza as well as some investigation as to what might have survived thousands of years later, such as large rounded stones with holes in them that are currently used as grinding/millstones.
Interesting!
Some of those pyramid stones were several tons. How would you keep a wooden frame from collapsing?
I hope we can all agree that "spacemen" didn't build it or teach them the technology to do so.
Said Bob, fishing for freepers who believe in extra-terrestials
Of Stonehenge Pyramids and Man:Irrespective of the size of the workforce available, human muscle power is in my opinion, not up to the task. However I believe that human intelligence is.
Egyptian Stone Conveyor
by Gordon Pipes
Let us look at the task in more detail; 2.6 million divided by 20 years gives us a more understandable figure of 130,000 blocks of stone per year. Let us now assume that the workers worked 365 days per year for 20m years without a single day of rest. 130000 divided by 365 days equals 356 stone blocks per day. Assuming that the workers COULD drag blocks of stone along on sledges for a total of 12 hours per day. 356 divided by 12 equals at least 29 blocks of stone per hour or 1 block every 2 minutes.
We will forget for the moment that 2 other smaller pyramids plus temples, walkways, etc, were constructed at the same time. And that several very large wooden boats were buried in large pits hacked out of solid stone.Forgotten TechnologyI have found that only simple wooden tools and gravity is needed for moving heavy weight. Nothing rigid is necessary. You do not need to lift weight to move it from place to place. Stones make excellent fulcrums and pivot points... I found that the heavier an object is the easier it is to balance it. Since mass has to obey the laws of physics, it resists movement and once it is set in motion it resists change. Also, once a weight is close to balance on a single point, rotation can be initiated and the object becomes stable.
by W.T. Wallington
Was a Murphy Mover used to build pyramids?
