Evolution of water lifting devices (Pumps) over the centuries worldwide

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5031-5060

  Yannopoulos, Stavros I ^a   Lyberatos, Gerasimos ^b   Theodossiou, Nicolaos ^a   Li, Wang ^c   Valipour, Mohammad ^d   Tamburrino, Aldo ^e   Angelakis, Andreas N ^f  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^f INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ancient Egyptians; Archimedes screw; Bronze age; Chinese dynasties; Classical and Hellenistic periods; Hellenistic alexandria; Indians; Persian empire; Piston type pump; Pre Columbian America; Roman times; Shaduf

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIA; ARCHIMEDES SCREWS; BRONZE AGE; CHINESE DYNASTIES; CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC PERIODS; EGYPTIANS; INDIANS; PERSIANS; PRE-COLUMBIAN; ROMAN TIMES; SHADUF;

PUMPS;

ANCESTRY; BRONZE AGE; CIVILIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; PUMP; ROMAN ERA; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WATER TECHNOLOGY;

CHINA; EGYPT; INDIA; IRAN;

EID: 84944937660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7095031     Document Type: Article

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