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Sciple's Water Mill in Kemper County, built in 1790 and owned by four families over the next fifty years. The Sciple family bought the property in about 1840 and has kept it running ever since. This mill also ginned cotton and sawed lumber until the 1950s. Missouri
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.
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.
The watermill was first made in the Persian Empire some time before 350 BC. [verification needed] [22] In the third century BC, ... Texas, United States.
The List of watermills is a link page for any watermill. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2009) Historical mills.
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 ...
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. [91]
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