A community group in Derby wants to install a specialist turbine using a river's energy to power nearby businesses. Darley ...

Many of us have heard the name Archimedes’ screw — but not everyone knows the term screw conveyor. These folks (sadly, the videographer at [Breeze Media] doesn’t tell us their names ...

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

The Archimedes' screw remains virtually unchanged in modern applications. The screw was designed to raise water from one source and deposit it into another. Lore states that King Hiero II of ...

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The most famous of these were the Archimedes' Screw (a device for raising water that is still used in crop irrigation and sewage treatment plants today) and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy.

Archimedes screw turbines (AST) are gaining traction as a viable solution for micro hydropower production, particularly in low-head water systems. These turbines are designed to harness the ...

The threads of this screw were turned from solid brass on a lathe. Two box-shaped pans were formed by folding copper sheeting and soldering the edges. A pivot point for the bottom end of the screw to ...