Mad Dog 21/21: Torque Is Cheap
October 26, 2015 Hesh Wiener
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“Screw it,” said Archimedes of Syracuse, refusing to surrender to the gravity of the situation. Around 250 B.C., he developed a water pump that converted torque to lift. It was a helix inside a cylinder, a progenitor of propellers and augers. Archimedes also devised ingenious ways to calculate volume and mass. Archimedes’ two principal pursuits, applied physics and applied math, are as important today as ever, particularly for IBM’s current passion, the Internet of Things. But IBM’s IoT prowess, like Archimedes’ “eureka,” may be apocryphal; it remains, at best, unproven. The “eureka” story has been around a long |
