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Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century). A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering.
Dingley's Mill, Green Valley, Fairfield, CA. 1850, in ruins now. 40 water wheel. Hearn's Mill, Seaford, Delaware; Ward Spoke Mill, in ruins on Upper Pike Creek Road in Newark, Delaware; Blantons Mill, Blanton Mill Rd. Griffin, Ga, restored as an office on the banks of the Flint River, built around the early 1800s
A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir . As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one-way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall.
Some water wheels are fed by water from a mill pond, which is formed when a flowing stream is dammed. A channel for the water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race. The race bringing water from the mill pond to the water wheel is a headrace; the one carrying water after it has left the wheel is commonly referred to as a ...
Water Mill is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) within the Town of Southampton on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 1,559 at the 2010 census. [ 4 ]
A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour milling (using a pair of millstones), lumber production, or metal shaping (rolling, grinding or wire drawing). A watermill that generates electricity is usually called a hydroelectric plant.
Water Mill, New York, USA; a hamlet on Long Island in Suffolk County Water Mill (LIRR station) of the Long Island Rail Road, in the hamlet of Water Mill; Water Mill (Water Mill, New York), a watermill listed on the National Register of Historic Places; The Watermill Center, a center for arts and the humanities; Watermill Cove, St. Mary's, Isles ...
VSI mill (vertical shaft impactor mill), a mill that comminutes particles of material into smaller (finer) particles by throwing them against a hard surface inside the mill A wet mill performs wet-milling : steeps a substance in water to remove specific compounds