Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A water-elevator consisting of an application of the Archimedean screw. It has spiral vanes set on an inclined axis revolving within a cylindrical casing whose lower end is in the water.
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Examples
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The ship was furnished with four anchors of wood and eight of iron; and "the water-screw" of Archimedes, already mentioned, was used instead of a pump for the vast ship; "by the help of which one man might easily and speedily drain out the water, though it were very deep."
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Intermingled with dissertations on abstract causes and the hidden forces of Nature are to be found descriptions of taps and pumps and syphons, and of the water-screw of Archimedes, the re-invention of which caused poor Galeazzo Rosso,
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Galeazzo discovered the principle of the water-screw of Archimedes before the description of the same, written in the books of the inventor, had been published.
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_De Sapientia_, Cardan records that when Galeazzo perfected his water-screw, he lost his wits for joy.
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He detected the mixture of silver in a crown of gold which his patron, Hiero of Syracuse, ordered to be made, and he invented a water-screw for pumping water out of the hold of a great ship he built.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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