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the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
written by David Wallace
This website from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gives details of a model of how Archimedes might have set the Roman fleet afire with reflected sunlight. The website uses photos and text to show the MIT engineering procedure, step-by-step. A timeline with links provides further detail.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/student/items/detail.cfm?ID=5344">Wallace, David. Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1, 2005.</a>
![]() D. Wallace, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2006), WWW Document, (http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html).
![]() D. Wallace, Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2006), <http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html>.
![]() Wallace, D. (2005, October 1). Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing. Retrieved December 7, 2023, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html
![]() Wallace, David. Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1, 2005. http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html (accessed 7 December 2023).
![]() Wallace, David. Archimedes Death Ray: Idea Feasibility Testing. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. 1 Oct. 2005. 7 Dec. 2023 <http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html>.
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Year = {2006}
}
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