Cicero wrote of similar devices and attributed them to Archimedes.
However, maybe that attribution is similar to attributing the light bulb to Edison. We don't know who Archimedes might have been working with, who's shoulders he might have been standing on, etc.
However, maybe that attribution is similar to attributing the light bulb to Edison. We don't know who Archimedes might have been working with, who's shoulders he might have been standing on, etc.