A screw could be sealed with pitch or some other adhesive to its casing, or, cast as a single piece in bronze, as some researchers have postulated as being the devices used to irrigate Nebuchadnezzar II's Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The 'screw' does not necessarily need to turn inside the casing, but can be allowed to turn with it in one piece. Also, water leaking from the top section of the screw leaks into the previous one and so on, so a sort of equilibrium is achieved while using the machine, thus preventing a decrease in efficiency. The contact surface between are the screw and the pipe does not need to be perfectly water-tight because of the relatively large amount of water being scooped at each turn in respect to the angular speed of the screw. This amount of water will slide up in the spiral tube as the shaft is turned, until it finally pours out from the top of the tube and feeds the irrigation systems. The screw is turned (usually by a windmill or by manual labour).Īs the bottom end of the tube turns, it scoops up a volume of water. A screw can be thought of as an inclined plane (another simple machine) wrapped around a cylinder. The machine consists of a screw inside a hollow pipe.
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