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The Claw of Archimedes (Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγη, romanized: harpágē, lit. 'snatcher'; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault.
Detail of a wall painting of the Claw of Archimedes sinking a ship (c. 1600) The city was fiercely defended for many months against all the measures the Romans could bring to bear. Realising how difficult the siege would be, the Romans brought their own unique devices and inventions to aid their assault.
Archimedes is said to have designed a claw as a weapon to defend the city of Syracuse. Also known as " the ship shaker ", the claw consisted of a crane-like arm from which a large metal grappling hook was suspended.
Archimedes may have used mirrors acting collectively as a parabolic reflector to burn ships attacking Syracuse. Archimedes is purported to have invented a large scale solar furnace, sometimes described as a heat ray, and used it to burn attacking Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse (c. 213–212 BC). It does not appear in the surviving ...
Archimedes' heat ray, a device that Archimedes is purported to have used to burn attacking Roman ships during the siege of Syracuse. [1] Claw of Archimedes, purportedly a sort of crane used to drop an attacking Roman ship partly down in to the water during the siege of Syracuse. [3] Polybolos, an ancient Greek repeating ballista. [4]
Most of the plot of the film revolves around the hunt for the two pieces of Archimedes’ dial, an ancient device that could supposedly be used to “read fissures in time”, potentially allowing ...
Claw of Archimedes: An ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault. Although its exact nature is unclear, the accounts of ancient historians seem to describe it as a sort of crane equipped with a grappling hook that was able to lift an attacking ship partly out of the ...
Claw of Archimedes; The Archimedeans, ... Archimedes (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Archimedean This page was last edited on ...