De Kievit, Menaldum of the "upright shaft" there are two "crown wheels" The upper "crown wheel", which has 35 cogs drives an Archimedes' screw via a "crown wheel". This screw was used to pump water into the polder. The lower "crown wheel", which has 35 cogs, drives a gearwheel with 32 cogs on the axle of an Archimedes' screw, which was used to drain the polder. The axle of the screw is diameter and long. The screw is diameter. It is inclined at 10°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water. "De Kievit" is open to the public at any time it
Archimedes The foremost document containing the work of Archimedes is the Archimedes Palimpsest. In 1906, the Danish professor Johan Ludvig Heiberg visited Constantinople and examined a 174-page goatskin parchment of prayers written in the 13th century AD. He discovered that it was a palimpsest, a document with text that had been written over an erased older work. Palimpsests were created by scraping the ink from existing works and reusing them, which was a common practice in the Middle Ages as vellum was expensive. The older works in the palimpsest were identified by scholars as 10th century AD copies of previously unknown