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  • Thumbnail for Archimedes' screw
    The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, is one of the earliest hydraulic machines...
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    A screw pump is a positive-displacement pump that use one or several screws to move fluid solids or liquids along the screw(s) axis. The screw pump is...
    7 KB (907 words) - 10:08, 19 January 2024
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    A screw steamer or screw steamship (abbreviated "SS") is an old term for a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine, using one or more propellers...
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    Jackscrew (redirect from Screw jack)
    A jackscrew, or screw jack, is a type of jack that is operated by turning a leadscrew. It is commonly used to lift moderate and heavy weights, such as...
    10 KB (1,295 words) - 09:05, 6 May 2024
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    Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to...
    60 KB (6,502 words) - 15:06, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Screw conveyor
    A screw conveyor or auger conveyor is a mechanism that uses a rotating helical screw blade, called a "flighting", usually within a tube, to move liquid...
    13 KB (1,479 words) - 16:31, 3 May 2024
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    Propeller (redirect from Screw propeller)
    A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that...
    42 KB (5,332 words) - 14:11, 29 May 2024
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    Screw piles, sometimes referred to as screw-piles, screw piers, screw anchors, screw foundations, ground screws, helical piles, helical piers, or helical...
    7 KB (917 words) - 18:50, 2 March 2024
  • helical thread: Screw (simple machine) Screw thread, screw thread principles and standards Archimedes' screw, a simple machine for transporting water to a...
    2 KB (246 words) - 16:41, 1 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Screw sloop
    A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. They were popularized in the mid-19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine and the transition...
    8 KB (953 words) - 08:06, 4 February 2024
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    Vehicle (category Transport)
    trams), watercraft (ships, boats, underwater vehicles), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicles, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, aerostats)...
    62 KB (6,441 words) - 02:01, 9 June 2024
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    as the chain and bucket elevator, grain auger screw conveyor using the principle of Archimedes' screw, or the chain and paddles or forks of hay elevators...
    150 KB (18,347 words) - 13:08, 7 June 2024
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    Steam frigate (redirect from Screw corvette)
    Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships...
    23 KB (3,274 words) - 13:58, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Screw-propelled vehicle
    A screw-propelled vehicle is a land or amphibious vehicle designed to cope with difficult terrain, such as snow, ice, mud, and swamp. Such vehicles are...
    32 KB (3,420 words) - 07:59, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steamship
    prefix designations of "PS" for paddle steamer or "SS" for screw steamer (using a propeller or screw). As paddle steamers became less common, "SS" is incorrectly...
    47 KB (5,774 words) - 08:21, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plastic compounding
    extrusion. The hopper feeds the begin of the screw which will gradually transport the resins towards the die. The screw itself is confined in a barrel that has...
    2 KB (231 words) - 11:30, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ships of the Confederate States Navy
    CSS Chickamauga, screw steamer, burned CSS Clarence, brig, burned: June 12, 1863 CSS Florida, screw steamer, sloop, captured: October 7, 1864 CSS Georgia, screw steamer...
    45 KB (4,855 words) - 00:35, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dewatering screw press
    A dewatering screw press is a screw press that separates liquids from solids. A screw press can be used in place of a belt press, centrifuge, or filter...
    13 KB (1,787 words) - 07:05, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Railway coupling
    screw coupling as well. The C-AKv coupler can automatically couple two pneumatic lines. As of 2020[update] its use is limited to trains transporting ore...
    72 KB (8,954 words) - 17:17, 8 June 2024
  • Princeton may refer to: USS Princeton (1843), a screw sloop, launched and commissioned in 1843, the first screw-driven vessel in the Navy and the subject of...
    855 bytes (161 words) - 13:39, 20 September 2021
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