The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester / from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir

by Marquis of Edward Somerset Worcester

No. LIII.

A way how to make hollow and cover a water-screw, as big and as long as one pleaseth, in an easy and cheap way.

NOTE.

A leathern water-pipe, such as is used by the firemen, being nailed in a spiral form round a long circular pole, is the cheapest and most simple method yet discovered of making the Archimedean screw.