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=Famous Greek inventors=

Ancient Greece was a time with many great and famous inventors whos inventions changed the world. One of the great inventors of ancient Greece was **Archimedes** (born in Syracuse, Sicily c. 287 BC - 212 BC). He was a engineer, mathamatician, inventor, astronomer and physicist. Most of his inventions were used for war. He invented siege engines and the screw pump and also invented a machine capable of lifting ships out of the water and setting them on fire using an array of fire. Most of his inventions were used for war and protected Syracuse when the Romans laid siege to it for two years. He also discovered the number pi and what is believed to be the most important physics invention, that showed there was a relationship between volume, mass and pressure and without that important discovery, almost none of the inventions today would exist. His death came at the hands of a roman soldier during a war and his last words were 'do not disturb my circles.'

Another famous inventor from ancient Greece was **Heron** (Alexandria c.10 AD - 70 AD). Heron was geometer and engineer from Alexandria who was sometimes called Hero. A brilliant invention of his was the steam engine which he called aeolipile (meaning 'wind ball' in greek). He also invented the wind organ, an organ powered by wind. He also invented a formula to find the square root of a number, it was named Hero's formula. Heron got his nickname of Hero because of his amazing inventions. Heron taught at the 'musaeum' (the museum of Alexandria) because of his knowledge of mathamatics, mechanics and physics. It is thought that Herons inventions were the first branch of cybernetics. His cause of death is unknown.

Another well-known ancient Greek inventor was **Pythagoras** (Samos c. 570 BC - 495 BC). Pythagoras was a mathamatician and philosopher and also founder of religious movement pythagoreanism. He travelled a lot when he was young, visiting Egypt and other places of knowledge and in one of the places he visited he met a man named Themistoclea, who introduced him to ethics. He set a religious sect around the age of thirty in Croton (a greek colony in southern Italy). Pythagoras was especially well known because of his mathamatical theorum named 'Pythagoras' theorum' that basically states that on a right-angled triangle the two shorter sides squared and put together are equal to the longer side squared. Pythagoras was also credited a lot from the success of many people, including his colleagues. He also had a son (Telagues) and three daughters (Damo, Arignote and Myia). He apparently died in Metapotnum, where he starved to death.

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