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Paul E. Chevedden: counterweight trebuchet was first mechanical utilization of gravitational energy. It unleashed a revolution in siegecraft, provided impulse for dramatic changes in military architecture. It influenced the development of such practical devices as clockwork, says Lynn white.

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Ordance Petrov

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