Pulley

the odometer. He also discovered many new formulas. He discovered how to find the volume of an irregular object, the area of a circle, the surface area of a sphere, the area under a parabola, and approximated the value of pi. He also invented the pulley, fulcrum, and lever. He made many inventions for the king to help protect the city. These included a heat ray and the Claw of Archimedes. His inventions gave Syracuse a new way to fight, and it helped protect and defend the citizens. Archimedes…

Khufu pyramid (The Great Pyramid of Giza) Egypt is home to many unique things among them is the pyramids constructed by the laborers under the watch of the pharaohs. According to Butzer, Elisabeth and Serena (40), the pharaohs intended to create tombs for Kings such as Khufu to show appreciation to the gods. In doing the works, the pharaohs did not have the idea one of the pyramids would stand out as a great piece of artwork for many centuries to come. While designing structures, the leader…

expressing large numbers. In addition he is also one of the firsts to use mathematics to physical phenomena finding statics and hydrostatics. Including he found an explanation of the lever. He designed many machines like the screw pump, compound pulleys, and war…

deal with present and past stereotypes in the context of today’s society.” In order to display connections between the past and the present, Charles takes common black stereotypical characters and reinterprets them in contemporary ways. For example, the image of Aunt Jemima, a mammy, which is a black character that is historically known for being the caring house servant for the white family, is a caricature that Charles often critiques in his work. Similar to Charles, Colescott plays upon the…

called the alternator. The alternators mission is to charge the battery and supply extra power to other accessories to your car like the radio. To explain how it works is the alternator is made up of a stator, rotor and diode. As the v-belt spins; the pulley on the alternator the rotor inside spins fast. The rotor is a group of magnets or a magnet that spin and inside of a group of copper wires called the stator. It creates electricity through electromagnetism and the copper wires turn the…

to two ends of a painted plank and were moved very quickly in order to make a moving picture (“The History of Film The Pre-1920s”). The next great advancement was called the Kinetophone. It was a projector that was connected to a phonograph with a pulley system, but it didn't work very well and was difficult to to match the sound up with the video and soon proved to be unsuccessful since competitive, better synchronized devices were beginning to appear at the time (“The History of Film The…

Anna Coletti Adrienne Hollifield AP English IV 15 October 2014 The Evolution of Audio Recordings From the crude beats of an ancient drum to the electronic sounds of a modern synthesizer, music has evolved over millennia. Since the invention of the audio recorder, people have been able to document the evolution of music so that history can actually be heard. Recording devices have developed from tinfoil and hand cranks to complex computer systems. When music was first being recorded, musicians…

rainy day. A picture is a thousand words on a small piece of paper. This picture could mean the word to the person who is carrying it, but could also be unknown to the person portrayed in it. Naomi ends the poem with “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.” This last stanza ties everything together by saying that even the smallest things can be revolutionary or famous. The…

The Roman Colosseum and it’s effect of Roman Society By: Teodoro Uberuaga Did you know that the Roman Colosseum had gladiator fights, animal hunters, mock sea battles and more. Could hold over 50,000 people. By looking at The Roman Colosseum, one can see that it had a big impact on Roman culture and politics, because they would hold public executions of Christians which made the religion appear treacherous. The colosseum main uses were: politics, entertainment and public executions. The…

Ancient Greece the native home of western civilization contrived the most advanced technological features that people have ever seen. As shown in page 5 from the report of (n.d.). L'AnticoPédie .Greeks used a variety of advanced technology such as pulleys,…