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

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=1067&context=classicsfacpub https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...