So, Archimedes was said to have employed a pulley system that lifted the ship out of its dock. While the Syracusia was a marvel of its own, the really impressive engineering was the pulley system ...

Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BCE ... Visitors can play on contraptions that feature compound pulleys, levers and inclined planes to learn about principles in equilibrium and energy, as well ...

Athenians also understood the mechanics behind a basic pulley system well before Archimedes came along and invented the compound pulley, which the Greeks famously used to hoist and topple enemy ...