Evolution of Water Lifting Devices (Pumps) Over the Centuries Worldwide
Water 2015, 7, 5031-5060; doi:10.3390/w7095031 OPEN ACCESS water ISSN 2073-4441 www.mdpi.com/journal/water Review Evolution of Water Lifting Devices (Pumps) over the Centuries Worldwide Stavros I. Yannopoulos 1,*, Gerasimos Lyberatos 2, Nicolaos Theodossiou 3, Wang Li 4, Mohammad Valipour 5, Aldo Tamburrino 6 and Andreas N. Angelakis 7 1 Faculty of Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece 2 School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechneiou 5, Zographou GR-15780, Greece; E-Mail: lyberatos@chemeng.ntua.gr 3 Faculty of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece; E-Mail: niktheod@civil.auth.gr 4 Department of Water Resources History, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing 100048, China; E-Mail: wangli@iwhr.com 5 Young Researchers and Elite Club, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran; E-Mail: vali-pour@hotmail.com 6 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago 8370448, Chile; E-Mail: atamburr@ing.uchile.cl 7 Institute of Iraklion, National Foundation for Agricultural Research (NAGREF), Iraklion GR-71307, Greece; E-Mail: info@a-angelakis.gr * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: giann@vergina.eng.auth.gr; Tel.: +30-2310-996-114; Fax: +30-2310-996-403. Academic Editor: Miklas Scholz Received: 14 May 2015 / Accepted: 8 September 2015 / Published: 17 September 2015 Abstract: The evolution of the major achievements in water lifting devices with emphasis on the major technologies over the centuries is presented and discussed.
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