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Schematic diagram of an overshot water wheel. Date: 11 March 2007 (original upload date) (Original text: March 11, 2007) Source: Transferred from to Commons. (Original text: Original artwork by Daniel M. Short) Author: The original uploader was DanMS at English Wikipedia. (Original text: Daniel M. Short) Other versions
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Pitchback_water_wheel_schematic.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0 2009-12-21T16:06:32Z Thryduulf 2000x2067 (452595 Bytes) Fixed a couple of letter spacing issues with the labels. I was unable to find a match for the for the font used, so I have replaced all the labels with ones using ...
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.
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.
These images of norias show a strikingly similar design to those in Hama today. In the mid-7th century CE, the area around Hama was conquered and absorbed into the expanding Muslim Arab state. The latter assiduously mastered new technologies which it encountered - like norias - improved them and expanded their uses. [ 6 ]
A schematic, or schematic diagram, is a designed representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures. A schematic usually omits all details that are not relevant to the key information the schematic is intended to convey, and may include oversimplified elements in order to make this essential meaning easier to grasp, as well as additional ...
The water wheel and watermill are the earliest instances of machines harnessing natural forces to replace human muscular labour (apart from the sail). [3] As such, it holds a special place in the history of technology and also in economic studies where it is associated with growth.