All:
Yesterday I purchased second-hand an Erector set (aka Meccano)
manufactured in 1959 (the Rocket Launcher set) and straightaway pedalled
home to build a trebuchet, a medieval counterweight catapult. I just
perfected the sling mechanism (hardest part). It can now throw a
small polyurethane ball about ten feet (as I calculated it would). It's
throwing arm is just about two feet long.
Does anyone know of poems that mention or are otherwise "about"
trebuchets and other sorts of catapults? I wrote one about two years
ago. Anyone else?
Gabe Gudding
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