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A screw pump is a device for pumping fluids or finely divided solids by use of a moving inclined plane (a screw). Picture a long screw of uniform diameter that is slipped into a closely fitting jacket or pipe. By turning the screw in the right direction, material which is pooled or clustered around the bottom can be lifted. The device was known to ancients and was used to lift water. Archimedes' screw is just this kind of device, but its history certainly dates further back, and perhaps as much as 400 more years to the time of the Assyrians (as in Hanging Gardens of Babylon). It is used today to move many kinds of fluids, and is very common in the movement of grain (where it's called an auger) and other solids that come in the form of small pieces or units. A snow blower or cement truck represent an application of the screw pump.

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