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 ...

The ship-shaking device was invented by the great mathematician and inventor Archimedes around 214 BCE. The Carthaginians used the device to ward off potential invasions by Roman ships. With the help ...

There are six basic simple machines: the lever, the wedge, the pulley, the wheel and axle, the inclined plane, and the screw. Archimedes used combinations of these machines to create such devices ...