The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, is one of the earliest documented hydraulic...

hull, the Archimedes' screw was purportedly developed in order to remove the bilge water. Archimedes' machine was a device with a revolving screw-shaped...

municipal solid waste, and many others. The first type of screw conveyor was the Archimedes' screw, used since ancient times to pump irrigation water. They...

Archimedes was a steamship built in Britain in 1839. She was the world's first steamship to be driven successfully by a screw propeller. Archimedes had...

machines, such as his screw pump, compound pulleys, and defensive war machines to protect his native Syracuse from invasion. Archimedes died during the siege...

– c. 212 BC) used a screw to lift water for irrigation and bailing boats, so famously that it became known as Archimedes' screw. It was probably an application...

A screw turbine (also known as an Archimedean turbine, Archimedes screw generator or ASG, or Archimedes screw turbine or AST) is a water turbine that...

water screw, or screw pump, was first used in Ancient Egypt, some time before the Greek philosopher Archimedes described the Archimedes screw water pump...

Gardens as watered by screws. The screw pump was later introduced from Egypt to Greece. It was described by Archimedes,: 242–251  on the occasion of his...

through or over which the vehicle is moving. They have been called Archimedes screw vehicles by the US military, where they are classified as a type of...

spiral (also known as Archimedes' spiral, the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. The term Archimedean...

him to invent the Archimedes' screw, which can be used to transport water from low-lying bodies into irrigation ditches. Archimedes later returned to...

century BC. He states that the gardens were watered by means of an Archimedes' screw leading to the gardens from the Euphrates river. The last of the classical...

and described by Greek philosopher Archimedes around the 3rd century BC: the lever, pulley and screw. Archimedes discovered the principle of mechanical...

1838. This genus of bryozoans is named Archimedes because of its corkscrew shape, in analogy to the Archimedes' screw, a type of water pump which inspired...

continuous screw press differs from the above presses in that it does not process a single batch of grapes at a time. Instead it uses an Archimedes' screw to...

shaft mining techniques in combination with equipment such as the Archimedes screw. The materials they produced were used to craft pipes or construct...

of the Archimedes' screw, was invented independently by Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericsson in 1835. The technology of propeller or 'screw' propulsion...

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aviation and maritime transport. In the centuries after Archimedes invented the Archimedes' screw, developments of propeller design led to the torus marine...

houses a micro hydro-electric power station, using a 3.6-metre (12 ft) Archimedes' screw turbine to generate electricity for sale to the National Grid. The...

a single inclined shaft that carries the sails on one end and an Archimedes' screw on the other, in this way avoiding the need for any gearing. The tjasker...

Tinguely Overengineering Rube Goldberg machine Theo Jansen Trammel of Archimedes Munari, Bruno (15 September 2015). "official website, "Useless Machines""...

daggers, spears, and maces. According to a recent hypothesis, the Archimedes' screw may have been used by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water...

wheel which drives the Archimedes' screw via a 46-cog gear wheel on the axle of the Archimedes' screw. This Archimedes' screw has an axle diameter of...

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Devices with a helical thread: Screw (simple machine) Screw thread, screw thread principles and standards Archimedes' screw, a simple machine for transporting...

Antikythera mechanism), possibly in Rhodes. By at least the 3rd century BC: Archimedes' screw, one of the earliest hydraulic machines, was first used in the Nile...

waste as it is loaded. Other systems used a continuously rotating Archimedes' screw to draw in waste and mutilate it inside the body. A mixture of safety...

of motion to move in the water. • Archimedes screw generators spin as the water moves through the shape of the screw. They are particularly effective in...