Archimedes

=__Archimedes (287 B.C.E. - 212 B.C.E.)__=

__Inventions/Discoveries:__**
 * __Background:__
 * The Screw: was invented to draw bilge water out of one of the ships he invented. It was later used by the Romans for plumbing. It pulled water by turning a handle using a spiral filing inside the tube to pull the water up the tube and into the facet attached to it.
 * The Death Claw: During the seige of Syracuse Archimedes invented a giant lever pulley system (that was titled the death claw) to defend his city. The claw would reach down and grab hold of a attacking ship then lift it up into the air. At max hight the tension in the pulley system would be released dropping the ship to it's doom.
 * The Golden Crown:

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