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Kenyon's Grist Mill, West Kingston, current mill building was built in 1886, (operation founded in 1696) [5] South Carolina. Boykin Mill, Boykin, an operating grist mill where meal and grits have been ground by water power for over 150 years. Suber's Corn Mill, Greer, built in 1908 by Walter Hillary Suber.
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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.
A water wheel is a machine for converting the kinetic energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a large wheel (usually constructed from wood or metal), with numerous blades or buckets attached to the outer rim forming the drive mechanism. Water wheels were still in commercial ...
There is also evidence of water mills for which both sides had a narrower water wheel, similar to an old paddle steamer. The floating platform is anchored at the most intense point in the current, to the bridge piers for easy access to the mill, or to the shore. Floating allows the mill to operate with the same power despite changing water levels.
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The water falls from the pipe into the buckets (formed from wooden slats on the circumference) and makes the wheel rotate in what is described as the 'reverse' direction: it is a backshot wheel. The crank has a throw of 4 feet (1.2 m) and connects to a counterweight and to a very long rod.
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