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Most of them, actually. Hero of Alexandria developed a steam-powered rotary engine, built a vacuum pump and wrote volumes on engineering, physics and hydraulics. Archimedes developed the principle of displacement, and wrote of a giant mirror that might be used to set wooden ships on fire by focusing sunlight onto the ship.

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