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Archimedes was born on 287 B.C in the seaside city of Syracuse. He was a celebrated Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Astronomer and Inventor. As a mathematician, Archimedes proved one of the most rigorous geometric theorems, including the area of a circle, surface area and volume of a sphere and the area under a parabola 1 . Though Archimedes was most well-known for his inventions, using his knowledge on Physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering and his intellect, he created three of the most incredible weapons of war: The Archimedes Screw, The Claw of Archimedes and The Heat Ray. The Archimedes Screw:
The Archimedes Screw was an invention that allowed man to move water up. Archimedes invented the ‘Archimedes Screw’ when King Hiero the second commissioned Archimedes to build a huge ship, the Syracusia. It was said that the Syracusia was capable of carrying 600 people, it also has a gym, garden decorations and a temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite. For a ship this big the hull would leak a considerable amount of water, to solve this problem Archimedes created the ‘Archimedes Screw’ to move water out of the hull 2. …show more content…

Due to the claws ability to lift boats it became known as ‘The Ship Shaker’. The consisted of a long crane-like arm from which a large metal grappling hook was suspended. When the claw is dropped on an enemy ship, the arm would swing upwards lifting the ship up and thus possibly sinking

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