Travels to Egypt to study at Alexandria. Invents the Archimedes' Screw, a device used to pump water out of ships. c. 263 B.C. Returns to Syracuse. 263-216 B.C. Develops most of his major theories ...

Archimedes is often credited with inventing the Archimedes’ screw, a device for raising water ... Back then, it was used to pump water out of ships and for irrigation. But the design is still ...

Screw pumps use one or multiple rotating Archimedes’ screws called spindles. Viscous material pumps for products like ...