>>96111339
>Tessarokonteres, Syracusia
Why? Despite their size, they hardly used gears, if any. Though I once mixed them with the British propaganda of Napoleonic invasion ( https://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/11/floating-citadels-powered-by-wind-and-water-mills.html ), couple more details and made up pic related.

>and Archimedes shit in general come to mind
I thought any anon would already know about it. Btw, Ancient China had an Archimedes-like weapon: https://greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com/2024/08/unique-chinese-weapon-pai-gan.html

>as well as Chinese and Korean gunpowder stuff
Didnt consider it relevant.

I did find a few more links that might be relevant for "clockpunk".

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/07/guido-vigevanos-wind-car-1335.html

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/10/wind-powered-factories-history-and-future-of-industrial-windmills/

http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/dog/dog.htm

http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/clockwork/clockwork.htm