Audrey McEvoy Josie Morales- Archimedes

Archimedes:

Archimedes By: Audrey McEvoy And Josie Morales

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Yeah, That guy.

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Let’s get some facts.

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Born in 287 BC in Syracuse in Sicily Made war machines After Roman’s conquered Sicily, a special squad of soldier were trained to capture our buddy, Archimedes alive.

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Yeah, He was THAT important.

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He proved that an object plunged into liquid becomes lighter by an amount equal to the weight of liquid it displaces; popular tradition has it that Archimedes made the discovery when he stepped into the bathtub, then celebrated by running through the streets shouting "Eureka!"

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I’d like to party with that guy.

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The first of Archimedes' inventions was called the Archimedean screw. He invented the screw because he saw how hard it was for the Egyptians to carry water buckets around their whole fields. The screw was like a hand pump that was used to spray water directly from the Nile onto the fields.

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The Claw of Archimedes The claw was an ancient weapon, similar to a crane, equipped with a hook that could lift ships partly out of water, and then could either drop or capsize the ship.

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Archimedes also created an odometer. It dropped a ball for every mile travelled to keep track of distances travelled.

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Archimedes used geometry and astronomical observation to accurately find the circumference of the earth with in a few hundred miles. Archimedes built a machine that helped him to measure the angles of the rising sun. His machine helped him to correctly calculate the length of a year (the current Greek year of Archimedes' time relied on the phases of the moon to calculate a year, and so were constantly having days added and taken off).

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His last recorded words of are these, "Noli turbane circulos meos!" This means, "Do not disturb my circles!" Archimedes was working on a mathematical problem and was so absorbed in it that he became annoyed with a certain Roman soldier who stepped onto the circles that he was drawing. This Roman soldier had come to bring Archimedes before his general, who knew of Archimedes' genius and wanted to meet him. When Archimedes said this to the soldier, the soldier became so angry that he drew his sword and killed Archimedes. When the soldier's general heard what he had done, the soldier was executed.

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