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  2. Shadoof - Wikipedia

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    Shadoof in Estonia. A shadoof or shaduf [1] is an irrigation tool that is used to lift water from a water source onto land or into another waterway or basin. It is highly efficient, and has been known since 3000 BCE. [citation needed] The mechanism of a shadoof comprises a long counterbalanced pole on a pivot, with a bucket attached to the end ...

  3. Construction of the Egyptian pyramids - Wikipedia

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    Levering methods are considered to be the most tenable solution to complement ramping methods, partially due to Herodotus's description; and partially to the shadoof, a lever-enabled irrigation device first depicted in Egypt during the New Kingdom and found concomitantly with the Old Kingdom in Mesopotamia. In Lehner's point of view, levers ...

  4. Saqiyah - Wikipedia

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    The Saqiyah, c. 1905 'Punjab Wheel', India c.1917. A sāqiyah or saqiya (Arabic: ساقية), also spelled sakia or saqia) is a mechanical water lifting device.It is also called a Persian wheel, tablia, rehat, and in Latin tympanum. [1]

  5. Ancient technology - Wikipedia

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    The lever was used in the shadoof water-lifting device, the first crane machine, which appeared in Mesopotamia circa 3000 BC, [9] and then in ancient Egyptian technology circa 2000 BC. [10] The earliest evidence of pulleys date back to Mesopotamia in the early 2nd millennium BC. [11]

  6. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Egyptians are credited with inventing the ramp, lever, lathe, oven, ship, paper, irrigation system, window, awning, door, glass, a form of plaster of Paris, the bath, lock, shadoof, weaving, a standardized measurement system, geometry, silo, a method of drilling stone, saw, steam power, proportional scale drawings, enameling, veneer ...

  7. River - Wikipedia

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    The counterweight system of the shadoof is an early example of the engineering of river water. In pre-industrial society, rivers were a source of transportation and abundant resources. [19] [26] Many civilizations depended on what resources were local to them to survive.

  8. History of engineering - Wikipedia

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    The lever was also used in the shadoof water-lifting device, the first crane machine, which appeared in Mesopotamia circa 3000 BC, [6] and then in ancient Egyptian technology circa 2000 BC. [8] The earliest evidence of pulleys date back to Mesopotamia in the early 2nd millennium BC, [9] and ancient Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty (1991-1802 BC ...

  9. Kelon - Wikipedia

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    Kēlōn or Shadoof, an irrigation tool; Hisense Kelon or Kelon, a Chinese appliance manufacturer; Kelon language, a Papuan language of Indonesia; Kelon Campbell, an influencer and comedian known online as Psyiconic; a class of composite material; see, for example, Percussion mallet; the Breton name of Chelun, Brittany, France