Archimedes was the designer of the inventively named Archimedes Screw, a useful device that was used for raising water using a screw, encased around the sides, open at both ends. ... Such inventions further increase the production of food, which allows the employment of still more inventors, who produce more and more sophisticated technologies; these technologies in turn increase the ease by which food is obtained, and the cycle repeats. ... Archimedes, for instance, created a device by the use of which one could easily acquire water; this enabled the Greeks to spend more time developing oth...

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He had been screwed over too many times by the civilized world, and that was the main reason he decided to leave home. ... From the moment that Huck and Jim met up with the king and duke, the voyage took a turn for the worse. ...

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Be-sides, the events turned upside-down, concealed or transposed. ... Also, we can find the requisites of destruction (engine parts; rivets; screws; rusty tracks) in this "wild world", which strengthen mechanical, "metallic" and depressing con-ventions of the modern society. ...

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(French, 1998) This adaptation of materials has encouraged further inventive ideas that work with nature's unexpected turns. ... For example, MuscleSlab is a recent benefit of historic design elements as it "combines a concrete pod slab and a steel screw pile system designed to meet some of the worst geotechnical conditions possible....

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