Archimedes’ Screw: Ancient Invention Used To Transfer Water To Higher Levels
AncientPages.com | August 30, 2018
AncientPages.com - The Archimedes screw is a machine that can transfer water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. Water is pumped by turning a screw-shaped surface inside a pipe.
Invented by Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.) the device was originally used for irrigation in the Nile delta and for pumping out ships. Some writers have suggested the device may have been in use in Assyria some 350 years earlier.
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