The ship-shaking device was invented by the great mathematician and inventor Archimedes around 214 BCE. The Carthaginians used the device to ward off potential invasions by Roman ships. With the help ...

He viewed himself as an inventor, but also as a restorer of ancient knowledge ... When the trigger mechanism is tripped by the hull of a ship a counterweight is released downward and a claw extends ...

president to have patented an invention. The steamboat model which ... Sixteen people — workers from the ship as well as innocent bystanders — were killed. The Globe’s days as a Great ...