water-screw

The ship was furnished with four anchors of wood and eight of iron; and "the water-screw" of Archimedes, already mentioned, was used instead of a pump for the vast ship; "by the help of which one man might easily and speedily drain out the water, though it were very deep."

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Intermingled with dissertations on abstract causes and the hidden forces of Nature are to be found descriptions of taps and pumps and syphons, and of the water-screw of Archimedes, the re-invention of which caused poor Galeazzo Rosso,

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

Galeazzo discovered the principle of the water-screw of Archimedes before the description of the same, written in the books of the inventor, had been published.

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

_De Sapientia_, Cardan records that when Galeazzo perfected his water-screw, he lost his wits for joy.

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

He detected the mixture of silver in a crown of gold which his patron, Hiero of Syracuse, ordered to be made, and he invented a water-screw for pumping water out of the hold of a great ship he built.

The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852