SS Archimedes SS Archimedes SS "Archimedes" was a steamship built in Britain in 1839. She is notable for being the world's first steamship to be driven by a screw propeller. "Archimedes" had considerable influence on ship development, encouraging the adoption of screw propulsion by the Royal Navy, in addition to her influence on commercial vessels. She also had a direct influence on the design of another innovative vessel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's , then the world's largest ship and the first screw-propelled steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The principle of moving water with a screw has been known since the invention of
Trammel of Archimedes in the form of the standard parametric equations for an ellipse in canonical position. The further equation is immediate as well. The trammel of Archimedes is an example of a four-bar linkage with two sliders and two pivots, and is special case of the more general oblique trammel. The axes constraining the pivots do not have to be perpendicular and the points "A", "B" and "C" can form a triangle. The resulting locus of "C" is still an ellipse. Trammel of Archimedes A trammel of Archimedes is a mechanism that generates the shape of an ellipse. It consists of two