Archimedean screw drainage windmill
Molino de drenaje con tornillo de Arquímedes (tornillo holandés)
- Date
- 1634 · confidence medium
- Place
- Holland, Netherlands
- Credited to
- Anonymous; Simon Stevin (improved drainage mills, 1586)
- People
- 👤 Simon Stevin1548–1620
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A windmill driving a large inclined Archimedean screw instead of a scoop wheel, raising water to a greater height with fewer losses. It extended drainage to deep lakes.
Recorded as a 'screw organ': the wind-driven lifting screw is the characteristic Dutch innovation of the period.
What it led to
- The draining of deep polders
- The standardisation of the Dutch drainage mill
- Modern screw pumps in water treatment
Built on
- Archimedes' screwc. 250 BCE
- Dike and polderc. 1100
- Polder drainage system with windmill chains1533-1612
- Rotating-cap tower windmill
Made possible
- Screw pump
- Pumping stations