Archimedes

how do you get water uphill?

Job: agriculture soil specialist
Scenario: your client wants to plant crops in a field 1.5 m above the local river. he needs to get water to this field and has no electricity to run a pump and no hose. he must start from scratch! how will he achive this?




this is the screw pump he invented to bring water 1.5 metres up a hill
Archimedes' screw. The Archimedes screw, also called the Archimedean screw or screwpump, is a machine historically used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. Water is pumped by turning a screw-shaped surface inside a pipe. The Archimedes screw is a machine that can raise water with much less effort than lifting buckets. It was invented by the Greek scientist Archimedes, though the year is not known. Archimedes lived in Syracuse, Sicily (now part of Italy) between the years 287 B.C. and 212 B.C.