What ancient mechanical device, consisting of a helical surface inside a hollow pipe, is used to transfer water from low-lying bodies into irrigation ditches?
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Archimedes' screw
Though named after the Greek polymath, some historians believe the device was used centuries earlier to water the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
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