Machines date back to ancient times, made and improved over the years to help make their lives easier. Machines can be simple but very useful, but some are more complex. Before 1 BC, people began to discover new ideas that gave rise to the need for machines to help them perform important tasks such as building, transporting, and much more. As time passed and new minds and brilliant ideas began to take flight, machines were a great development over time and many became famous for their great inventions of these machines. From Mesopotamian times to the present day, we are grateful for these inventions that help create new architecture and homes to live in. We still have some of the machines they used then, but the ones we have now have been updated and made more complex. One of these that was known to help since ancient times was the crane. Since then, more knowledge and machines have been created and today we have more machines for everything, such as digging, transporting and building. In reality, machinery has changed our lives in many ways. People think that machines are great useful things to help us, but if you look deeper a machine is "an apparatus that uses or applies mechanical power and has several parts, each having a defined function and together performing a particular task." So the car doesn't have to be a large useful appliance, even your computer, change machine and paper clip are a machine. Everywhere you look at a useful thing, what helps you perform a task is a machine. Also they can be called simple machines such as a pulley, a lever, a wedge, a wheel and axle, an inclined plane and a screw. So the story had an impact on the smallest useful things in our lives. It may be at worst or at best, but in this case it has changed...... middle of paper...... Institution, November 6, 2013. Web. November 11, 2013. "Paleolithic Period". Information, please. Infoplease, 2005. Web. 11 November 2013. "Wheel Cranes". Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 March 2013. Web. 11 November 2013. .Milton, Richard. "Museum of the Stone Age". Neolithic tools. Np, June 28, 2013. Web. November 11, 2013. “Bronze Age.” Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Np, nd Web. November 11, 2013. “How Did the Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid?” Blog on the mysteries of the world RSS. Np, nd Web. November 11. 2013. .