Long before gunpowder, Ancient Greek engineers were already constructing machines designed to level cities and sink fleets. Rarely does anyone picture a forty-meter (131-foot) iron-plated tower grinding toward a city wall, or a crane reaching down from the battlements...
Archimedes, one of Ancient Greece's most famous and influential physicists and engineers, left a legacy of writings that had been thought to be lost to time. Much of his work only survived through copies and translations by scribes. One...
The mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria is one of the most important but often underappreciated figures in the history of mathematics. Although little is known about the details of his life—even the exact dates of his birth and death are...
Since the birth of humanity people have fought against each other. The only change that progress has brought is that the ancient weapons have been replaced by more sophisticated ones.
However, some of our ancestors proved to be very sophisticated...
From Archimedes’ screw to Leonardo da Vinci’s aerial experiments, Ancient Greek mechanics helped inspire the idea of the first helicopter during the Renaissance. Archimedes designed the screw to lift water, but its spiral motion hinted at a broader potential—...
Have you ever wondered how ancient civilizations moved water uphill without modern technology? The answer lies in a simple yet very smart device called the Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention still used today .
Named after the brilliant Greek...
The ancient Greeks measured time in part because human beings have felt the need to track the passage of their hours and days since time immemorial, prompted certainly by the need to plant things at the appropriate time, on...
The vending machine is now a common sight and an integral part of modern life, but its basic concept dates back to the 1st century AD, when the machinery behind it was first invented by an ancient Greek engineer.
That...
An award-winning 12-year-old schoolboy in Canada has created a working death ray based on the model by ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Archimedes.
Historians and scientists have deliberated for hundreds of years on whether a "death ray" weapon supposedly invented...
