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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.
Another solution was the shipmill, a type of water mill powered by water wheels mounted on the sides of ships moored in midstream. This technique was employed along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in 10th-century Iraq, where large shipmills made of teak and iron could produce 10 tons of flour from grain every day for the granary in Baghdad. [93]
Watermill lists which summarize the rapidly developing state of research are provided by Wikander 1985 and Brun 2006, with additions by Wilson 1995 and 2002. Spain 2008 undertakes a technical analysis of around thirty known ancient mill sites.
Water Mill (Water Mill, New York) Mills at Green Hole, Philmont NY: Mills at Green Hole - Mill complex Early 1700s Fully operational water-powered saw mill, cider press, blacksmith shop, & woodworking shop; North Carolina Mingus Mill. Dellingers Mill, Bakersville, seasonally operational, water powered, 1867; Emmett Isaacs Mill, Surry County
Bridgewater Mill 3. Anderson's Mill, Smeaton, Victoria; Barrabool Flour Mill, Buckley's Falls, Highton, Geelong, Victoria Ben Eadie Mill, Sunbury, Victoria Carome ...
The Watermill (1958 tune) musical composition by Ronald Binge; Watermill, a 1972 ballet by Jerome Robbins; Watermill Theatre, a repertory theatre in Bagnor, Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK; 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
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).
Possible watermill Caesarius of Arles, Sermones, VIII, 4 [14] Early 6th century Cassiodorus, Variae III, 31.2 [15] 510/511 Charter of king Childebert I [16] Paris: 556 Charter Ship mill Charter of king Dagobert II [17] Trier: 646 Charter Charter of king Ethelbert of Kent [18] 762 Charter Charter [19] Wang-Thulbach 754 Charter Possible watermill ...