Instructional YouTuber Steve Mould and Stand-up Mathematician Matt Parker visited Jonathan Deane‘s home on 17 September, as a way to see for themselves the Wirtz pump within the stream on the backside of the backyard. Jon Bevan joined as properly. Jonathan and Jon printed a paper on the Wirtz pump in 2018 and that is how Steve Mould got here to find out about it. The pump is predicated on the easy concept of utilizing a rotating spiral pipe to pump water and it was invented in 1746 by Swiss pewterer HA Wirtz. The spiral is well constructed right into a waterwheel as a way to make a water-powered pump. Through the dry components of this summer season it has been extraordinarily helpful for holding the backyard watered.

Steve Mould is pals with some or the entire members of the band Blur and two of them got here too: Alex James (bass guitarist) and Dave Rowntree (drummer). Owing, partly not less than, to the difficulties of transporting a full drum equipment, we sadly weren’t handled to an impromptu recital in the course of the go to. Jon, Jonathan, and Steve are proven within the photograph under.