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The screw, the final of the straightforward machines to be invented, first appeared in Mesopotamia in the course of the Neo-Assyrian period (911–609) BC. The Assyrian King Sennacherib (704–681 BC) claims to have invented automatic sluices and to have been the primary to make use of water screw pumps, of up to 30 tons weight, which were forged using two-part clay molds quite than by the ‘lost wax’ process. The Jerwan Aqueduct (c. 688 BC) is made with stone arches and lined with waterproof concrete. Several of the six traditional simple machines have been invented in Mesopotamia. The wheel and …