The millenniums-old device being used to create clean power for the 21st century is called an “Archimedes screw,” named for the most famous of all Greek mathematicians and inventors.

They look in nature for something that has it, too, and this is what provides them with a word that they can use for it, that everybody will understand. - [Narrator:] The Archimedes screw is named ...

They developed a device called the Archimedes screw to lift water from one location to another. This tool is so useful that it is still in widespread use today. In this activity you will build ...

The most famous of these were the Archimedes' Screw (a device for raising water that is still used in crop irrigation and sewage treatment plants today) and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy.

They’ve turned to a centuries-old technology, the Archimedes screw, to power a new generation of autonomous mining robots. The key innovation lies in its locomotion system, which utilizes four ...