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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.
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
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.
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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]
At one time there were 750 tide mills operating along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean: approximately 300 in North America, [9] [10] including many in colonial Boston over a 150-year span. [11] In addition, 200 have been documented in the British Isles, and 100 in France. [12] The Rance estuary in France was also home to some of these mills.
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
Tide mills, along with riverine ship mills, were a major early medieval technological advance, allowing to tap the tidal power along the Atlantic Coast for milling.. This list of early medieval watermills comprises a selection of European watermills spanning the early Middle Ages, from 500 to 1000 AD.