Great Pyramid of Egypt was built using locks and water

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base. Verticalal wall boards placed against the support bricks guided the
stele as it went vertical . Vertical side supports embedded in the wall and
tied together as the stele submerged would keep the stele from shifting
sideways. One board at a time was removed from the base cradle as the
rest of the cradle rested on the bricks/clay base. After the cradle had been
completely removed slight dampening of the clay bricks would have
allowed a very, very slow settling to the base. This very slow settling
preserved the edges of the stele from spalling.
Why didn't they use cranes? If necessity is the mother of invention then
practicality is the father. What further use would an expensive giant crane
be? Who would want to take a chance of dropping or snapping in two
such a huge monument? They already had a proven technology that
worked.
Now here's something practical to consider. How did they manage to cut
huge blocks of stone for the pyramids so precisely that the cut did not
require further grinding and smoothing? Actually, the blocks within the
pyramid do not fit that tightly. They did not use chisels and hammers to
cut huge blocks of stone in a quarry. The method is this : a series of holes
about three inches deep are drilled . Two "feathers and a wedge is put into
each hole. When all the holes have been drilled and the feathers and
wedges installed the mason gives a slight tap to each wedge in turn until
the stone begins splitting and finishes splitting by itself. Did you ever use a
bow drill to start a fire? Holes in stone can be drilled the same way.

Stones are given an ultra smooth finish by rubbing a soft stone against the
harder one to be finished with fine grit between them sufficiently hard to
enbed in the soft stone and act as a sand paper against the stone to be
polished. a cloth or animal glue may have been used to hold the grit on the
polishing stone. Today we finish sidewalks with a broomed slightly rough
finish. If a very fine hard stone is embedded in the broom finish it makes a
fine grinding stone.

A bow saw of rawhide with grit embedded or glued to the rawhide would
yield a fine even straight cut and could be operated using a treadmill and a
brush blade similar to that used on a chain saw. It would not be difficult
to make a very long cut with such a saw.
Long fragile steles were never carried on ship. Under the ship maybe but
never on top of it on the Nile. It's most likely that men with paddles were
employed on top of or next to the steles going downstream while a
longboat filled with rowes would have been used to tow the stele
upstream.

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1. What was the speed achieved coasting down the finished corners of the
pyramids?
2. Who ran the supper club on the flat top of the pyramid?
3. Was the airspeed induced by the heat convection great enough to keep
a kite suspended without attention?
4. Was competitive bidding employed for awarding the cable car /elevator
concession?
5. How many corners had stairways?
6. Were there any niches for potted plants?
The base layer of interior blocks are half the height of the base layer of
perimeter blocks. The base perimeter blocks were held in place by any
number of rows of full height or half height blocks butted against the
outside of the perimeter blocks. Stone /brick and mortar cofferdams were
built on top of the perimeter blocks to a sufficient height to accomodate
the height of the proceeding perimeter block and it's float. Thus each
perimeter block was held in place by it's predecessor and the weight of
the cofferdam. There was no water pressure against the bottom half of
the proceeding perimeter blocks as the seepage away from the base of the
block was at a greater rate than the inflow. The same style of locks were
used in the quarries to move the blocks out of the quarries.
Floats were attached to the tops or sides of the blocks in the quarry by
means of strips of cotton cloth passed around and over the stone and
attached to floats placed on the top of the stones . A removable crank was
employed to twist a shaft to tighten the cloth bands. A simple pin or two
crosswise through the shaft would have been sufficient to hold the
assembly tight. Animal skins would have stretched during a journey in
water. Long strand Egyptian cotton cloth was used. A stone weighs much
less under water and is easily maneuvered into place by a slight push.
Several balls of dried clay thrown under a stone block made it easy to
remove the suspension straps. Look for the proof, find the clay still
present in the pyramid. Clay possesses dual properties. Clay is
semi-permeable. A mixture of clay, sand, and pebbles may have been used
as a sub-floor to help retard the
loss of water by seepage. A number of materials were available for sealing
floor and wall seams including mortar made of volcanic ash, tar, rawhide,
rushes, straw, etc..The same style of manual treadmill pumps are still
used today for irrigation though the materials may have changed.
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The hypotenuse = the square root of the sum of side A squared plus side
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Obelisks, Stellae to 32 Meters = 105 Feet

Water Pressure, P.S.I., Fresh Water at Sea Level 14.7 P.S.I.
Atmospheric pressure on the inside and outside of an open container is the same so we
will consider only the additional pressure at depth and consider surface pressure at - 0 -

Surface -0-

Natural Granite

Depth 06" = 0.21678

Depth 12" = 0.43356

Depth 18" = 0.65034

Depth 24" = 0.86712

Depth 30" = 1.08390

Depth 36" = 1.30068 - 3'

Depth 42" = 1.51746

Depth 48" = 1.73424 - 4'

Depth 54" = 1.95102

Depth 60" = 2.16780 - 5'

Depth 66" = 2.38458

Depth 72" = 2.60136 - 6'

Depth 78" = 2.81814

Depth 84" = 3.03492 - 7'

Depth 90" = 3.25170

Depth 96" = 3.46848 - 8'

Freshwater Weighr = 62.4 Pounds per Cubic Foot

Depth 102" = 3.68526

Depth 108" = 3.90204 - 9'

Depth 114" = 4.11882

Depth 120" = 4.33560 - 10'

Depth 126" = 4.55238

Depth 132" = 4.76916 - 11'

Depth 138" = 4.98594

Egyptian Granites

Depth 144" = 5.20272 - 12'

the locals huffing and puffing to pull a very large stone across wooden
rollers or up a greased ramp. Then they will show men struggling to load
a miniature stone needle onto a barge. Luckily these 'engineers' were never
put in charge of actually building anything of note, as they would have
soon impoverished Egypt and killed off the male population by exhaustion
and starvation.
Only a population with an agrarian base has the stability, tools, time, and
the skill to build great works. Hunters and gatherers are always on the
move looking for their next meal. Only a population with extensive free
trading contacts can assemble the materials that were necessary for
erecting the Pyramid. The short list of materials that the Egyptians
accessed were steel, copper, tin, zinc, gold, silver, lead, tar, nard, animal
fats, all manner of wood including bamboo, waterproof mortar, diamonds,
alloys of metals. Solder. Tools included pumps, dams, canals, locks,
protractors, drawing compasses, plumb bobs, magnetic compasses,
hammers, chisels, diamond tipped saws, metalworking furnaces, melt
shops, forges, compound pulleys, ropes, prybars, levers, etc.. They had
all the tools, time, materials and knowledge that they needed, yet these
modern engineers cannot figure out how the pyramid was built and the
evidence lies all around them. Water wheel crockery pumps and screw
pumps are still in use. The stones were never loaded on barges for
transport. The same floats that floated the stones under the surface of he
Nile also lifted them up the locks in the causeway to the sorting area
around the pyramid and then lifted them up the series of locks erected on
the four corners of the pyramid. Water was pumped to the pool top of the
working surface. As the gate on each succeeding descending lock in the
series was opened the stone(s) below was lifted one level. A single volume
of water lifted every stone in that series one step. Each corner had it's
own set of locks. As the pyramid grew in height the volume of material
required for each level shrank exponentially. As the area of every level
shrank less time was required for placing each succeeding level of fewer
blocks. The only choke point was the production of building blocks. Each
ascending level was built faster than the preceeding level. Henry Ford did
not invent the assembly line, he adapted it to build automobiles.
There were two choke points in the assembly line:
1.The production of building blocks and 2.The placing of cofferdams on
top of the outer perimeter stones to hold them in place and raise the water
level in the working pool. The cofferdam material was left in place as
smooth outer sheathing.
Archimedes did not invent the screw pump, he discovered it already in use
in Egypt.

Specific Gravities List

Specific weight of Egyptian Red Granite and weight per cubic foot.

Black statuary granite , Basalt

Black statuary granite

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Egyptian Red Granite

Egyptian method of splitting quarry stone =

Pyramid Height Extended to theorectical Lehner = 481' including cap.

Base, corner to opposite corner =1,069.14'

Corner length from base to top point =719.112'

This simple experiment will teach you the basic "SECRET KNOWLEDGE
OF HOW THE PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT. Get a cement block, a
bathroom scale, a broom, and a coat hanger wire or piece of rope.
1. Place the cement block in the bucket.
2. Thread the coathanger wire or piece of rope through the cement block.
3. Place the bathroom scale on top of the bucket.
4. Lay the broomhandle across the scale and secure bothe ends of the
rope or wire to the broom handle.
5. Lift the scale and note the weight of the block.
6. Fill the bucket with water and lift the block off the bottom of the
bucket, note the weight.
7. Continue lifting the scale very slowly while watching the read out or
    dial of the scale. Now you know more about building pyramids than all
the writers of the last 2,000 years.
Was the method of building pyramids copyrighted? In a way, Yes! How
was the knowledge copyrighted? If a product is no longer manufactured
the knowledge and machines of manufacture are left to rot or taken apart
and put to other uses. Without a written language the knowledge is lost
within a very few generations. Now suppose you had just built the
"Wonder of the world" and you didn't want anyone to ever be able to
duplicate it? The commoners were 'uneducated', with no written language.
Only a very few had written language. Have you ever noticed that some
people won't share their methods of "doing things the easy way" ? Or they
want to keep the profit of their new method? That's what copyrights are
for. But suppose you just had a huge pyramid built in your honor and you
didn't want anyone else to succeed in making a copy, and there was no
written language. You would not have carvings made showing the
methods used, you would do just the opposite. You would show a group
of men struggling to pull a huge stone up a five mile long ramp. You
would carve pictures in rock of huge sledges with runners instead of wet
boxes with wheels to transport steles and huge stone blocks.
If any of the quarries still exist as they were when quarried for blocks
they would have used locks to lift the blocks out of the quarry, otherwise
they would have had to flood the whole quarry at once with a float
attached to every block and then drained the quarry - not smart.
Why they built pyramids is not a mystery, they built them because they
could. The mystery is why four corners instead of three?   Better yet why
not a perfectly round tower? Would have required more stone? You have
probably seen 'Engineers' on TV programs standing in front of the Great
Pyramid posing the question "Who built the pyramid and how did they do
it?" Later in the programs you see the thick ropes and several of

The locks could only be located across the corners of the pyramid
because it is the only location where the distance between the
sequential corners of the tiers exceeded the combined width of the
block and the lockbox required to contain it. The ends of the locks
were supported on vertical shafts to the stones below if required. The
body of the lock rested directly on the lower level corner stones and
against the corner of the pyramid.. The locks were perpendicular to the
corners of the pyramid.The angle of the pyramid was dependent on the
height desired and size of the blocks.The vertical angle of the pyramid
corners is not as acute as the angle at the sides of the pyramid.The
foremost consideration was the size of the blocks that could be quarried
and transported to the site and the strength of the locks.necessary to raise
the building stones.
Some authors argue that concrete was used until the source of stone
to be burned and pulverized for cement / concrete were exhausted.
Concrete is a mixture of broken stone, sand, gravel. The cement is the
expensive ingredient. If concrete was used for the casing stones as
sometimes claimed they should contain irregular broken stone for
bulk.If they were cast in place great numbers of workers would have
been required to transport the material unless locks were employed. The
primary purpose of the "Casing Stones" was their use as coffer dams to
raise the water level and hold the perimeter walls in place for the next tier
of building blocks.It's most likely that they were constructed of stones
and mortar but could also contain clay bricks and mortar.
The romans used volcanic ash for making waterproof concrete. Their
work still stands. The egyptian works predated all the roman works.
Only a moron would believe that ramps, rollers, ropes, and cranes
were used to build the pyramids. They were too slow. These farmers
knew how to dig canals, pump water and build locks.
Please credit the author if you decide to reproduce any part of this
dissertation..
Surfcams1 (Lambadafan Ed), Original work 1997

The locks could only be located across the corners of the pyramid
because it is the only location where the distance between the
sequential corners of the tiers exceeded the combined width of the
block and the lockbox required to contain it. Only a fool would
consider loading a labor intensive fragile stele on a barge. Stone has
very little strength in tension..The stones and steles were suspended
underwater with floats for transport from the quarries. Locks were
opened sequentially to lift the stone blocks one level at a time. One
volume of water was used to lift every block in the series one level.
How fast was the system? The uppermost lock had an exit chamber
attached. Each main sliding door had at least one smaller sliding valve
door installed at the bottom of the door for metering water flow.
Several sliding valves were probably incorporated into the main lock
doors for very rapid As soon as the block was removed from the exit
chamber and the exit door closed, the door between exit chamber and
entry chamber was opened and the suspended block in the elevating
chamber was pushed into the entry chamber. The door between the
entry chamber and elevating chamber was closed. The door between
the second and third tier is opened and that block floated/ moved to
the second tier. Thus by opening and closing doors and opening and
closing sliding valves the blocks were raised to the top of the pyramid.
Very simple, very fast. The locks were built wide enough to
accomodate multiple stones as the stones varied in size. They installed
two courses or more of perimeter stones at a time to accomodate
very large core stones. The locks would have been built to
accomodate the largest stones used. They had four sets of locks, each
set could have been designed to accomodate a certain range of sizes.
We know that huge blocks were raised and we know that every so
often the working surface was evened out. Smaller blocks were used
near the top, so we know that sorting was employed.

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Base side length = 756' Lehner

Corner, angle from base to top = 41.98 degrees

Slope Angle of sides to top Lehner =51 50' 40"

floatation .

The weight of water displaced by an object and it's float is slightly exceeded to enable

Igneous granite was and is preferred for monuments because of it's
strong crystalline homogenous structure and resistance to weathering. The
mystery is how they were set upright. A wall of clay bricks was built to
support a lock at the next higher level. As soon as that lock was
assembled and the wall assembly cured, the stele was transferred to the
higher lock as was all the water.The now empty wooden lock was lifted
by a row of men on each side of the lock, each man raising the equivalent
of a board two feet wide and ten feet long vertically four feet while
sawhorses were placed under the empty lock box to make room for the
brick masons to place the next higher section of support wall under it.
The stele was transferred from one lock to the other as each level of
bricks were laid by the masons until the stele and locks were raised a
sufficient height with the stele lying horizontally within the locks. If you
have ever watched brick masons at work you know how fast this work
may proceed..Now that the stele is in position directly over it's
predetermined location how will the stele be lowered into position without
the use of cranes and ropes?
Our bricks are a mixture of the correct proportion of unfired sand and
clay placed on a bed of damp clay. When the support wall was of
sufficient height another layer of damp clay was placed and leveled
carefully for immediate installation of a lock. When the support wall was
cured sufficiently the stele was transferred to that higher level. And so it
went until the stele was raised a sufficient height for vertical installation.
The next problem to be solved was the method of of bringing the stele to
precise vertical position without snapping the stele in two by uneven
support as it was bought into vertical position.
This is the way that it was accomplished. They may have perfectly leveled
a base surface area large enough to allow for glitches, though after a few
hundred years of experience the method would have been quite precise.
At the base, fired and glazed clay drainage pipes with 90 degree elbows
were positioned. As the brick support wall was raised, two foot lengths of
glazed pipe were added, bell end up, and a three sided vertical wooden
trough guide was lengthened opposite the final rest of the horizontal stele..
When everything was finally in place a wooden cradle was affixed to the
bottom end of the stele, the upper half of the lock sides were removed,
and the the support base was systematically eroded away with water
which carried the the dissolved bricks away down the pipes. The wooden
guide and cradle allowed the stele to retain the flat sharp corners of the
base. Careful removal of the supporting base along the full length of the
stele allowed the stele to reach vertical at a predetermined distance from
the

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Number of finish tiers

Number of finish tiers=

Length of lock rest perpendicular to tier corner= 2.62'

Individual Tier Height, average = 481 / 204 = 2.3578431'

Petries measurememts.

Variations in core tier height = 20" - 59"

Number of tiers required including capstone = 204, - was not designed for a capstone.

Capstone height, theoretical = 2.3578431'

Actual number of tiers =203 + 1 Capstone

Face Slope Angle - Mark Lehner = 51: 50' 40" .

First Tier of Casing and Perimeter core blocks of concrete, photo.

Martin Doutre .

Royal cubit = 20.6066 Primative inches

Primative Inch = 2.54268 centimeters.

Original height Mark Lehner 481 Feet.

Base Length - Mark Lehner = 756'.

Courses -Layers-Tiers - 204 MOL

Average tier height = 2.357843 Feet

Average height, Perimeter Stone, without Facia extension = 5.240882'

Average height, Perimeter Stone + Facia =7.86132352

Lock Height = Lower Lock floor + Lower Lock height + Upper Lock floor + upper lock

?Lock length total = length formed by missing x,y perimeter stones caps.

height.

Weight per cubic inch of water = .433333 pounds per cubic inch

The doors are always located on the pressure (Upper) interior side of the lock frame.

Specific Gravity and weight per cubic foot, material.

Solid Limestone, specific gravity = 2.61

Solid Limestone, Lbs. per cubic foot. = 163 Lbs. - Lbs. per cubic inch =.094328703703

Solid Limestone, weight per cubic foot underwater. = 100.6 pounds

Water, weight per cubic foot. = 62.428 pounds = 7.066387 Gallons water.

Water pressure @ 2x height per tier = 2(2.357843) =(4.715686 x 1.73424) = 8.178 P.S.I.

Cubic inches water displaced by side floats = 232.153846 total /2 = 116.076923 cu. inch

Questions and answear

1. Howcome the layers of limestone core stones are different heights?

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed mostly of seacreature skeletons. Due to

variances of material deposition there are random silt layers between variable thick-

nesses of stone. Quarrymen would take advantage of conditions and cut the blocks

accordingly.

2. Why were some layers of corestones out of level?

The area is subject to some earthquake action. As we have discussed limestone is some-

times separated into layers by silt. As the pyramid was built some of those layers were

compressed to the point of collapse. Several leveling corrections were made during

construction.

3. How did they level the surface before they started building?

First they had to clear all the loose sand and soil and rocks from the surface. Then they

constructed an enclosing wall and flooded the surface with water and flattened most of

the surface. Cut stone was added to areas too low from areas that were too high. Where

necessary it is said that knobs and holes were used to hold the corner stones. Some

corner and perimeter stones were inlaid into the surface.

4. How long did it take to build?

Not nearly as long as previously thought. The workforce was well organized,well fed

and in good physical condition. They were mostly farmers from the Nile delta area. The

primary concern was the supply of core blocks and concrete. Core blocks were cutstone

The first/ bottom perimeter stones were made of concrete if the photos are to be trusted

It's likely that the upper perimeter casing stones were built by placing concrete on top

of the outer perimeter stones. The height of the concrete would have been 1/3 the total

height of the perimeter stone so that a pool of water was provided for floating the next

layer of core blocks into place. The bottom layer of perimeter / facia blocks were locked

into position by at least one row of blocks against the foundation until the second tier

of perimiter blocks were placed into position and topped by the concrete fascia angle

cofferdam.

If they could only move blocks during the flood season where did they store the blocks?

They already had a reservoir wall built around the pyramid base and that's where the

blocks were stockpiled. Suppose that a maximum number of blocks could be placed or

supplied in a certain length of time. That would be referred to as a "choke point".

though rain may have never been a factor, water temperature in the assembly pool would

have an effect on worker health. Labor was probably concentrated on production of

building blocks during cool weather.

The pyramid itself would have had an effect on the workpool water temperature.

Stones were sorted for height in the lower pool.

During construction water pumpimg maintained a level in lower and upper pools.

Each time a stone was raised into the upper pool a like volume of water was lowered

down the row of locks in the assembly line located at each corner of the pyramid. Thus

during construction pumping was only required for leaks and evaporation in both pools.

by pumping from the river to the causeway to the lower pool to the upper pool

During full fledged construction season work would have been non-stop day and night.

Delivery time per block would have been constant, number of crew placing blocks varied

to assure that placement speed was a little faster than delivery speed. Operation of the

lock doors would have been tweaked/ speeded up by installing multiple sliding valves

in the lock doors.

According to Petries measurements the tiers varied in height and were leveled every 7th

tier.Important as it indicates the depth of the pool for the tallest stones.

Water, Specific Gravity. = 1.0

One Gallon of water = 231 cubic inches =8.8345 Lbs.

To displace (float) 1 cubic foot of limestone requires 232.1538 cubic inches of air float.

Dimensions of blocks, average. L x H 28.2941172" x W 22.235"

Depth of lock rest perpendicular to pyramid corner = 31.44"

Thickness of vertical lock walls perpendicular to pyramid corner = Up to 4.545" thick

minus the width of two side floats.

required per tier. The bottom 1/3 mol of each upper tier lay inside 1/2 height of the
preceeding layer not counting the fascia angle.

Height of blocks = height necessary per tier minus the height of the angled Facia

3x3=9

5x5=25

7x7=49

9x9=81

13x13=169

15x15=225

17x17=289

19x19=361

21x21=441

23x23=529

25x25=625

27x27=729

29x29=841

31x31=961

33x33=1089

35x35=1225

37x37=1369

39x39=1521

41x41=1681

43x43=1849

45x45=2025

47x47=2209

49x49=2401

51 = 2601

25 Tiers+Cap

53x53=2,809

55x55=3025

57x57=3249

59x59=3481

61x61=3721

63x63=3969

65x65=4225

67x67=4489

69x69=4761

71x71=5041

73x73=5329

75x75=5625

77x77=5929

79x79=6241

81x81=6561

83x83=6889

85x85=7225

87x87=7569

89x89=7921

91x91=8281

93x93=8649

95x95=9025

97x97=9409

99x99=9801

101 = 10,201

One Hundred Tiers + Capstone, Stones Per Tier,Avg

103=10609

105=11025

107=11449

109=11881

111=12321

113=12769

115=13225

117=13689

119=14161

121=14641

123=15129

125=15625

127=16129

129=16641

131=17161

133=17689

135=18225

137=18769

139=19321

141=19881

143=20449

145=21025

147=21609

149=22201

151 = 22801

153=23409

155=24025

157=24649

159=25281

161=25921

163=26569

165=27225

167=27889

169=28561

171=29241

173=29929

175=30625

177=31329

179=32041

181=32761

183=33489

185=34225

187=34969

189=35721

191=36481

193=37249

195=38025

197=38809

199=39601

201 = 40401

One Hundred Tiers, Stones Per Tier, Average

203=41209

205=42025

207=42849

209=43861

211=44521

213=45369

215=46225

217=47089

219=47961

221=48841

223=49729

225=50625

227=51529

229=52441

231=53361

233=54289

235=55225

237=56169

239=57121

241=50081

243=59049

245=60025

247=61009

249=62001

251 = 63001

11x11=121

153,425

50 to 75 Tiers

75 to 100 Tiers

100 to 125 Tiers

125 to 150 Tiers

150 to 175 Tiers

403 = 162409

301 = 90601

351 = 123201

401 = 160801

405 = 164025

407 = 165649

175 to 200 Tiers

253=64009

255=65025

257=66049

259=67081

261=68121

263=69169

265=70225

267=71289

269=72361

271=73441

273=74529

275=75625

285=81225

277=76729

279=77841

281=78961

283=80089

287=82369

289=83521

291=84681

293=85849

295=87025

297=88029

299=89401

303=91809

305=93025

353=124609

355=126025

201 Tiers

202 Tiers

203 Tiers

307=94249

309=95481

357=127449

359=128881

311=96721

313=97969

361=130321

363=131769

315=99225

317=100489

365=133225

367=134689

319=101761

321=103041

369=136161

371=137641

323=104329

325=105625

373=139129

375=140625

327=106929

321=103041

377=142129

379=143641

331=109561

333=110889

381=145161

383=146689

335=112225

337=113569

385=148225

387=149769

339=114921

341=116281

391=152881

393=154449

343=117649

345=119025

395=156025

397=157609

346=119716

347=120409

399=159201

389=151321

409 = 167281

204 Tiers

Pyramid base length = 756 Feet

Stones per base length = 409 stones

Length per base stone =1.8481 = 22.18 "

OR 3.69682151' = 44.36"

OR 7.39364' = 88.72368"

The width of each tier shrinks by 2 x thickness of the perimeter stone

The perimeter stone and inner floor partner were most precise.

to accomodate the higher stones additional rows of perimeter were erected

to meet required depth while maintaing angle.

Lock height was varied to fit the stones.Lock walls were up to 3.5" thick.

The upper lock rested on the base stone and abutted the Fascia on top of'

the perimeter stone on both sides of the lock.

This formula yields the size of and number of all blocks in a solid pyramid built of standard size blocks and does not reflect the actual number or size.

variable dimension locks accommodated larger stones by placing two or three courses of perimeter stones first for deeper water pool / lock depth, not a problem.

23,425 + 1

25 to 50 Tiers

Mud brick and stucco finish.

The lock rested on the non-capped 3 perimeter corner stones.

The upper lock box floor extended from the inner corner of the perimeter

to the outer corner of the corner perimeter stone. The floor length was equal to

the hypotenuse of the corner / perimeter stone.

Larger stones required the lock floor to rest on 2 or 3 courses of perimeter.

The sideboards were extended to grip on the adjoining perimeter stones.

Hypotenuse= the square root of the sum of the two sides squared.

Hypotenuse=square root of (491.9524) + (491.9524)=sq root of 983.9048 = 31.367"

Why not three sides? Any given height and size of of blocks required a
certain amount of time to assemble. Time would have been an important
parameter to a sitting monarch. Height was another. Suppose that the
supply of blocks and labor were abundant. The bigger the blocks the
fewer tiers were required for a certain height but a certain angle was
required to provide support for locks.. A three cornered pyramid could
have slowed the building time by 25% and it would have required a greater
volume of stone. It's very probable that four assembly lines were
preferable to three.
Could the Egyptians have dammed up the Nile to keep the water level
steady all year around and used locks?
The Egyptians built dams and locks before they ever dreamed of building
pyramids. When and if the egyptologists ever discover the remains of a
dam in the nile it will be constructed the same way as the pyramid
perimeter walls were built. The bases of such dams would have slowly
subsided if the base blocks were layed on any base but solid stone. A base
layer may still be in place buried under silt while the upper blocks would
have been floated away and be put to some other use.

408,425

788,425

1,285,605

increased in length and width by two units.

The topmost single stone sat on the center of 9 stones. Each tier, up or down, shrank or

2,579,555

1,923,245

3,438,425

162,409

164,025

165,649

167,281

25 Tiers 153,425

25 Tiers 23,425

25 Tiers 408,425

25 Tiers 788,425

25 Tiers 1,285,605

25 Tiers 2,579,555

25 Tiers 1,923,245

25 Tiers 3,438,425

+162,409

+164,025

+165,649

+167,281

One Tier 1

201 Tiers 10,447,106

202 Tiers 10,609,515

203 Tiers 10,773,540

204 Tiers 10,939,189

205 Tiers 11,106,470

Man Power Requirements
Some people will insist that slaves were used. That's pretty doubtful as it's
hard enough to get a days work out of a disinterested slacker that's paid.
The labor had to be motivated, fed, paid, medicated, and sober during
working hours and have a day off for rest every so often, probably every
seventh day. Every lock would have required four people to operate, two
to lift the door and two equipped with poles to push the floating stones
through the open lock door. Speed was at a premium. Two men operated
the two-stage lock door. The first lift opened the sliding valves within the
door by means of wires attached to the lift rod which passed thru eye
guides mounted near the top of the door and attached to sliding gate
valves built into the door. As soon as the water drained from the upper
chamber to the lower chamber and equalized the level the gate was raised
and two men with poles pushed the stone into the upper chamber and
closed the gate. As soon as that gate was closed the next lower gate was
opened, the stone floated up one level, pushed through the gateway, the
gate closed and so on. This was a speedy operation and though the
number of locks varied up to 204 the speed never changed and only
depended on the slowest lock operators in the chain. The speed at which a
stone could be raised always exceeded the act of pushing the stone into
the next lock.
If all the tiers had been uniform in height there could have been 204 locks
on each corner of the pyramid. It is quite likely that the number of locks
would have been maximized. It's quite possible that one stone every ten
seconds per lock was raised.
6 stones per minute, 360 stones per hour, 8,640 per 24 hours, 34560 with
4 locks daily.
Pond algae growth was probably encouraged as any fine fiber would aid
in sealing the ponds.

Our Imaginary Pyramid could be raised in 321 days not
counting time required for sealing the floors and walls of
the upper basin or the foundation preparation, lower
sorting pond and causeway construction or supply and
preconstruction.

Dirty water with an oil slick would heat up and stay heated without evaporation.

Now you might say "But some of those block are huge and won't fit those little locks,

dimension would be (62.88" wide x 56.4" high x Length). This size lock could be used

to lift the perimeter stones with float(s) attached on top or ends. Once the stone reached

the upper pool floats could be re-arranged to facilitate installation of the perimeter stone.

What did they use for floats?. Float material depended on the environment. Animal skins

very useful in the upper pool for manuevering stones into position. A simple bellows

with flap valves would have been sufficient for inflation. Bamboo would have been the

most useful for transport in the nile if it was available.

Well, they made locks that were twice as high and twice as wide. The lock interior

could not be used in the nile, they would have been eaten, but they would have been

Noria, early water wheel pumps from greece

Fire Piston

Quarrying, Moving, Polishing, Installing, and Carving the Needles

Mines and Quarries of Egypt.

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This dissertation is covered by copyright law and is authored by
surfcams1
a.k.a. Lambadafan Ed in 1997.

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