Name/Title
Archimedes ScrewEntry/Object ID
2013.3.2Description
According to G. Gregory's Dictionary (1816), "of all the machines the ancients invented to raise water it appears that Archimedes Screw was the most curious." In the seventeenth century this machine was modified in an attempt to develop a perpetual motion machine by causing the descending water from the top of the screw to turn the screw and thus in turn to raise the water. The base is twenty inches long. This particular model was made by Benj. Pike, Jr., of New York.
We have seen Pike's Illustrated Catalogues of Optical, mathematical and Philosophical Apparatus in the 1848 edition in the New York Public Library and 1856 edition in the Oberlin College Library.Collection
Moosnick Museum - Scientific Apparatus
