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dr_dshiv
978 days ago
Archytas is famous for having designed a steam powered glider. And for having freed Plato from his brief slavery. But he also appears to have written the first treatise on mechanical engineering:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...