Compound lever sudden movement of the key. The earliest remaining writings regarding levers date from the 3rd century BC and were provided by Archimedes. ""Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth with a lever"" is a remark attributed to Archimedes, who formally stated the correct mathematical principle of levers (quoted by Pappus of Alexandria). The idea of the compound lever is attributed to the Birmingham inventor John Wyatt in 1743, when he designed a weighing machine that used four compound levers to transfer a load from a weighing platform to a central lever from which the weight
John Lever services to cricket. More recently, Lever has taken up teaching physical education at Bancroft's School. In 2002 he joined ITC Sports Travel as a tour host, accompanying cricket tragics all over the cricket world. John Lever John Kenneth Lever MBE (born 24 February 1949) is an English former international cricketer who played Test and One-Day cricket for England. Lever was a left-arm fast-medium bowler who predominantly swung the ball into right-handed batsmen. Cricket correspondent Colin Bateman remarked that "for 23 years he plied his trade with Essex, becoming the finest left-arm pace bowler in the country. Tough, astute, and entertaining