Archimedes' screw Archimedes' screw An Archimedes' screw, also known by the name the Archimedean screw or screw pump, is a machine used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. Water is pumped by turning a screw-shaped surface inside a pipe. The screw pump is commonly attributed to Archimedes, on the occasion of his visit to Egypt. This tradition may reflect only that the apparatus was unknown to the Greeks before Hellenistic times and was introduced in Archimedes's lifetime by unknown engineers. Depictions of Greek and Roman water screws show them being powered by a human treading on
Archimedes' quadruplets Archimedes' quadruplets In geometry, Archimedes' quadruplets are four congruent circles associated with an arbelos. Introduced by Frank Power in the summer of 1998, each have the same area as Archimedes' twin circles, making them Archimedean circles. An arbelos is formed from three collinear points "A", "B", and "C", by the three semicircles with diameters "AB", "AC", and "BC". Let the two smaller circles have radii "r" and "r", from which it follows that the larger semicircle has radius "r" = "r"+"r". Let the points "D" and "E" be the center and midpoint, respectively, of the semicircle with the radius "r".