wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Biography)."
One of today's industries that Archimedes is well-known for helping to develop and advance is the field of engineering. Engineering uses a significant amount of mathematics to develop and design countless elements of life, and industry. Archimedes has long since been credited with many of the concepts still used in the engineering field today.
At one point in his life a king commissioned him to design a very large ship that could be used for travel as well as a naval warship.
He did so and it was reputed to be an amazing vessel with garden decorations and a work out area.
Archimedes was well-known for developing concepts that were used much later in society. One of the many concepts that he developed and used during his lifetime, also helped lead to the later development of lasers.
It was during a war that he discovered using a burning glass to force sunlight to focus on attack...
This was very helpful to the
military in his time but also provided a solid foundation from which laser beams were discovered in modern history (Biography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Biography).
Archimedes has also been credited with improving the
power and accuracy of the catapult, and with inventing the odometer during the First Punic War. The odometer is said to have been a cart with a gear mechanism that dropped a ball into a container after each mile traveled (Biography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Biography)."
It is amazing to reflect on the great mind of Archimedes who was 2,000 years ahead of his time in the area of scientific and mathematical equations and concepts. It is difficult to imagine what he would have been capable of inventing today.
REFERENCES
Archimedes of Syracuse (accessed 4-2-07)
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html
Biography (accessed 4-2-07)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Biography
Discoveries and
inventions (accessed 4-2-07)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Discoveries_and_inventions
