Inventor of the, "Death Ray," and other ingenious engines of warfare, Archimedes, was perhaps the greatest engineering mind of his time. His inventions and discovered principles are still in use today.
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STRIDER WILSON'S LIVE COMEDY SPECIAL TAPING, 7 PM SHOW
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Sources: The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim 2010, britannica.com, imdb.com, businessinsider.in ‘A 13-year-old built a 'death ray' using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes’ by Jenny McGrath 2024, worldhistory.org ‘Archimedes’ by Joshua J. Mark 2022, inventiongen.com, interestingengineering.com ‘7 Remarkable Inventions from Archimedes That Shaped History’ by Trevor English 2019, history.net.com ‘THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE: A ROMAN GENERAL VS. A GREEK GENIUS’ by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 2020