Observations and Results How does the Archimedes screw manage to move water uphill? When you bend the tubing into a spiral shape, it forms individual pockets where water can get trapped because ...

Narrator:] The spiral pattern around the trunk of the ... I looked at what various writers had said about Archimedes and the water-raising screw, and they thought the screw itself was older ...

The ancients used what we call Archimedes’ screw to raise water. But a Wirtz pump as [Steve Mould] shows in the video below, is another kind of spiral pump that is also very old and uses the ...

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 ...

developing a device for moving water uphill. What came to be known as Archimedes’ screw consisted of a hollow cylinder. Inside of this was a central shaft around which was wrapped a long spiral ...

The ancients used what we call Archimedes’ screw to raise water. But a Wirtz pump as [Steve Mould] shows in the video below, is another kind of spiral pump that is also very old and uses the ...

Narrator:] The spiral pattern around the trunk of the ... I looked at what various writers had said about Archimedes and the water-raising screw, and they thought the screw itself was older ...