Archimedes' Screw (Illustrations) - 2 views
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THE SCREW OF ARCHIMEDES Archimedes of Syracuse, when he was in Egypt, invented a machine for pumping bilge water out of the holds of ships. . . . A curious model of such an instrument, probably of the late Ptolemaic period, has been found in Lower Egypt. It consists of a terra-cotta cylinder with a screw inside it, 10 inches long and 4-1/2 inches in diameter.
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henry m on 04 Nov 11It's amazing that this was the modern water pump back then.
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