Pete Clarke Wrote:
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>
> i think it was an episode of "Secrets of Lost
> empires" where the reference to palm trunks being
> used to raise the water was traslated into a form
> of Archimedes Screw.

Thanks, Pete.

From memory, they had a lot of problems, though. First, the mechanism wouldn't work properly, and they had to make a lot of adjustments to it; and then it wouldn't shift the water fast enough ... However, it is some years ago now since I saw it!

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