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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The challenge facing manufacturers of 8-bit machines through the middle of the ... makers of the BBC Micro? They had the Archimedes, and [RetroBytes] takes us through how they packaged their ...

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 ...

Rocket Lab USA Inc.’s successful test of its Archimedes engine bodes well for the space-launch company’s new Neutron rocket, says Cantor. Back To Top ...

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