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  2. Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia

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    The screw pump is the oldest positive displacement pump. [1] The first records of a water screw, or screw pump, date back to Hellenistic Egypt before the 3rd century BC. [1] [3] The Egyptian screw, used to lift water from the Nile, was composed of tubes wound round a cylinder; as the entire unit rotates, water is lifted within the spiral tube to the higher elevation.

  3. Screw turbine - Wikipedia

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    A screw turbine at a small hydro power plant in Goryn, Poland. The Archimedean screw is an ancient invention, attributed to Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC.), and commonly used to raise water from a watercourse for irrigation purposes.

  4. Ancient Greek technology - Wikipedia

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    This device, capable of lifting solid or liquid substances from a lower plane to a higher elevation, is traditionally attributed to the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse. [10] [11] Streets: c. 400 BC Example: The Porta Rosa (4th–3rd century BC) was the main street of Elea (Italy) and connected the northern quarter to the southern ...

  5. List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes Screw Pump. One of the US's oldest surviving examples of the wind-driven Archimedes screw-pump. 1890 Newark: California United States ASME brochure: 92: 1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Unique electromechanical devices and systems in the longest accelerator in the world. 1962 Menlo Park: California United States ASME brochure ...

  6. Screw conveyor - Wikipedia

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    The first type of screw conveyor was the Archimedes' screw, used since ancient times to pump irrigation water. [1] They usually consist of a trough or tube containing either a spiral blade coiled around a shaft, driven at one end and held at the other, or a "shaftless spiral", driven at one end and free at the other. The rate of volume transfer ...

  7. Screw mechanism - Wikipedia

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    It first appeared in Mesopotamia during the Neo-Assyrian period (911-609) BC, [7] and then later appeared in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. [8] [9] Records indicate that the water screw, or screw pump, was first used in Ancient Egypt, [10] [11] some time before the Greek philosopher Archimedes described the Archimedes screw water pump around ...

  8. Glossary of mechanical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes' screw – also known by the name Archimedean screw or screw pump, is a machine used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. Water is pumped by turning a screw-shaped surface inside a pipe. The screw pump is commonly attributed to Archimedes, [22]

  9. List of Egyptian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The first records of a water screw, or screw pump, date back to Ancient Egypt before the 3rd century BC. [180] The Egyptian screw, used to lift water from the Nile, was composed of tubes wound round a cylinder; as the entire unit rotates, water is lifted within the spiral tube to the higher elevation. A later screw pump design from Egypt had a ...