Archimedes didn’t really invent a death ray ... For thousands of years, farmers have used this simple machine for irrigation: Placed at an angle with one end submerged in a river or a lake ...

Around 269 B.C. Archimedes invented a device for pumping water out of ships. Similar in shape to a screw used to hold wood together, the Archimedes' Screw was used to transport water with a ...

Maybe for other inventors’ machines, few of which would be worthy of having Henry Jones Jr. search for it. But if anyone could have figured out time travel it was Archimedes. And if he did ...

In fact, it is the specific Greek festivals the device tracks which might cast doubt on Dial of Destiny’s assertion that Archimedes designed the machine. Most famously, the mechanism was ...

When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C., Archimedes invented "engines of war" to defend the city, including cranes to drop rocks, claws to lift ships from the water, and machines to fire ...

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