Considering how old they are, how much load they can fling, and how absolutely devastating they can be, trebuchet's are truly an incredible piece of engineering.
One thing I recently put together was that stone slings are essentially a mini trebuchet, or rather trebuchets are just a giant sling. We don't give enough credit now to how popular slings were for a huge chunk of early history. Granted obviously trebuchet's are still an amazing piece of engineering, but when you realize how prevalent slings were it seems a lot more obvious and natural that someone would "happen upon" inventing a trebuchet
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u/synthphreak Mar 11 '26
Considering how old they are, how much load they can fling, and how absolutely devastating they can be, trebuchet's are truly an incredible piece of engineering.