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    Archimedes designed many machines to fulfill needs of his home city Syracuse, including a huge warship called the Syracusia for King Hieron II. The Syracusia was the largest ship built in antiquity and could carry 600 people along with amenities like gardens and a temple. Since such a large ship would take on water, Archimedes developed a screw pump to remove bilge water. The Archimedes screw worked by using a revolving screw inside a cylinder to transfer water, and is still used today to pump liquids and granulated materials. It may have improved an earlier screw pump used to irrigate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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    Archimedes designed many machines to fulfill needs of his home city Syracuse, including a huge warship called the Syracusia for King Hieron II. The Syracusia was the largest ship built in antiquity and could carry 600 people along with amenities like gardens and a temple. Since such a large ship would take on water, Archimedes developed a screw pump to remove bilge water. The Archimedes screw worked by using a revolving screw inside a cylinder to transfer water, and is still used today to pump liquids and granulated materials. It may have improved an earlier screw pump used to irrigate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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    The Archimedes Screw

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    Archimedes designed many machines to fulfill needs of his home city Syracuse, including a huge warship called the Syracusia for King Hieron II. The Syracusia was the largest ship built in antiquity and could carry 600 people along with amenities like gardens and a temple. Since such a large ship would take on water, Archimedes developed a screw pump to remove bilge water. The Archimedes screw worked by using a revolving screw inside a cylinder to transfer water, and is still used today to pump liquids and granulated materials. It may have improved an earlier screw pump used to irrigate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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    Archimedes

    The Archimedes Screw A large part of Archimedes' work in engineering arose from fulfilling the needs of his home city of Syracuse. The Greek writer Athenaeus of Naucratis described how King Hieron II commissioned Archimedes to design a huge ship, the Syracusia, which could be used for luxury travel, carrying supplies, and as a naval warship. The Syracusia is said to have been the largest ship built in classical antiquity. According to Athenaeus, it was capable of carrying 600 people and included garden decorations, agymnasium and a temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite among its facilities. Since a ship of this size would leak a considerable amount of water through the hull, theArchimedes screw was purportedly developed in order to remove the bilge water. Archimedes' machine was a device with a revolving screw-shaped blade inside a cylinder. It was turned by hand, and could also be used to transfer water from a lowlying body of water into irrigation canals. The Archimedes screw is still in use today for pumping liquids and granulated solids such as coal and grain. The Archimedes screw described in Roman times by Vitruvius may have been an improvement on a screw pump that was used to irrigate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

    Submitted by: CORINA Q. ASUNCION

    Narra - I

    Submitted to: MR. RAMIL SANTOS

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