De Westermolen, Kollumerpomp of the upright shaft. At the bottom of the upright shaft is the "crown wheel", which has 41 cogs, drives a gearwheel with 42 cogs on the axle of the Archimedes' screw. The axle of the Archimedes' screw is diameter. The screw is diameter . It is inclined at 16.7°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water. The Archimedes' screw that pumped water into the polder has been removed. "De Westermolen" is open on Friday mornings. It is also open on Saturday mornings if there is enough wind to work the mill. De Westermolen, Kollumerpomp De Westermolen is a
Acorn Archimedes share in the education markets of the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand; the success of the Archimedes in British schools was due partly to its predecessor the BBC Micro and later to the Computers for Schools scheme organised by the Tesco supermarket chain in association with Acorn, and most students and pupils in these countries in the early 1990s were exposed to an Archimedes or A-series computer. The Archimedes range was available in the US and Canada via Olivetti Canada. By the mid to late 1990s the UK educational market began to turn away from the Archimedes. Apple Macintosh