Stock Photo: Vintage Illustration Of Screw Designed By Archimedes.
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The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopaedia 1930s / 1940s - Social history. The Archimedes screw was designed to lift water from low lying areas to higher areas for irrigation purposes. Archimedes screw can also be found in today`s machines, from industrial manufacturing plants right down to miniature pumps in modern engines. Archimedes, born c. 287 bce, Syracuse, Sicily [Italy]—died 212/211 bce, Syracuse, the most-famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder.
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