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[Aemilius Paulus]

Another story from the Syracuse siege was a giant wooden machine who threw a giant "arm" to the sea and smashed roman ships. .

From what I read it was an a long mechanical arm that tipped the ships over. Basically hit them on their side, right where the deck ends, and it destabilised the ship to the point where it simply flipped. Or as other sources state, the arm flipped them by acting as a lever, pushing from the bottom of the ship; or the keel.

[Mikhail Mengsk]

From what I read it was an a long mechanical arm that tipped the ships over. Basically hit them on their side, right where the deck ends, and it destabilised the ship to the point where it simply flipped. Or as other sources state, the arm flipped them by acting as a lever, pushing from the bottom of the ship; or the keel.

[Caveira]

Even more impressive is that aleged steam powered cannon conceptulized by Archimedes.

I think it were some MIT students who succefully built a steam gun that fired a bullet at sonic speed from one. They kept the blueprints for themselves for being too dangerous.