Archimedes' life is riddled with tales that seem fantastical, one of the most fascinating being that of the Syracusia. Said to be the largest transport ship for its time and many generations after ...

ONTARIO (WKRC) - In ancient Greece, the famed inventor Archimedes devised a "death ray" that could harness the power of the sun. Centuries later, a 13-year-old proved his design worked.

"Due to Archimedes being such an amazing inventor, I decided to research more of his inventions," he said. That's when he found the so-called death ray. During the siege of Syracuse between 214 and ...

Archimedes wrote about harnessing the Sun’s energy to create a death ray. And Sener wanted in. Sener has since earned multiple medals for his attempt to bring the ancient device to life. In his ...

Archimedes didn’t really invent a death ray. But more than 2,200 years after his death, the ancient Greek’s inventions are still driving technological innovations — so much so that experts ...

Have children help you create posters for display that can be used to identify the location of resources related to Archimedes, mathematics, and inventions in the children's area. Favorite books.

While in Alexandria, Archimedes began his career as an inventor, developing a device for moving water uphill. What came to be known as Archimedes’ screw consisted of a hollow cylinder.

As warships advanced on the Hellenistic city - which is located on the island of Sicily - local defenders turned to Archimedes’ inventions to help keep the enemy at bay.

Archimedes found a relationship between the full area of that slice, which was a section through the plane-sided volume, and the smaller area within it, which was a section through the curved shape.