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See also:ARCHIMEDES, See also:- SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl
SCREW OF , a See also:machine for raising See also:water, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for the purpose of removing water from the hold of a large See also:ship that had been built by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Hiero II. of See also:Syracuse. It consists of a water-tight See also:cylinder, enclosing a chamber walled off by See also:spiral divisions See also:running from end to end, inclined to the See also:horizon, with its See also:lower open end placed in the water to be raised. The water, while occupying the lowest portion in each successive See also:division of the spiral chamber, is lifted mechanically by the turning of the machine. Other forms have the spiral revolving See also:free in a fixed cylinder, or consist simply of a See also:tube See also:wound spirally about a cylindrical See also:axis. The same principle is sometimes used in See also:machines for handling See also:wheat, &c. (see See also:CONVEYORS).
End of Article: ARCHIMEDES, SCREW OF
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