Archimedes Screw
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BCE) has long been associated with the screw apparatus used to raise water from one level to another. And small models of the Archimedes screw have long been used to teach natural philosophy. This pedagogical example has a glass spiral, a tin reservoir, and a “Queen & Co. Philada.” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: James W. Queen & Co., <i>Priced and Illustrated Catalogue of Physical Instruments</i> (Philadelphia, 1888), p. 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University of Delaware
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326973
label: catalog number
content: 326973
label: accession number
content: 264670
objectType: label: Object Name
content: archimedes screw
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 5 in x 23 in; 24.13 cm x 12.7 cm x 58.42 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 23 3/4 in x 5 in; 21.59 cm x 60.325 cm x 12.7 cm