Archimedes Heat Ray, Siege of Syracuse, 212 BC

The 2nd century AD author Lucian wrote that during the Siege of Syracuse Archimedes destroyed enemy ships with fire. The device, sometimes called the Archimedes heat ray, was used to focus sunlight onto approaching ships, causing them to catch fire. Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer

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