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Archimedes: Catapults
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Some of the inventions Archimedes created were catapults to hurl burning balls of fire and grappling cranes to tip over ships. He ... proposed making a huge mirror to focus sunlight on the ships to set them on fire.
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Archimedes invented and accomplished many things in his 75 years on the Earth. He invented things such as the Archimedes screw, the catapult, and the burning mirrors. He ... developed theories on bouyancy.
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Archimedes has ... been credited with improving the power and accuracy of the catapult, and with inventing the odometer during the First Punic War. The odometer was described as a cart with a gear mechanism that dropped a ball into a container after each mile traveled.[23]
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