machines
Title | Age | Country | General description | Machine code |
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Name | number | other names | Period | Title | Type | Use | Location |
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Linares area, Centenillo mine | Imperial | Spain | Five water-screws | Cento-Ws | Linares area, Centenillo mine | 154 | I BC-III AD | Linares area, Centenillo mine | water-screw (κοΧλιας) | draining water |
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Alcaracejos | Post-Roman? | Spain | Tres Naciones mine remains of water-screw with crank handle? date:post-Roman? | Alcaracejos | water-screw (κοΧλιας) | to dewater the mine |
AlcaracejosAlcaracejos, Andalusia |
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Ayni (between Carchemish and Samsat) | Roman | Turkey | water-screw installation to a small fort on the Euphrates river a Roman inscription from AD 73 showed that Vespasian and Titus had constructed a water-screw | water-screw | I AD-II AD | Ayni (between Carchemish and Samsat) | water-screw (κοΧλιας) |
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