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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.
Vertical axis water mill A horizontal wheel with a vertical axle. Commonly called a tub wheel , Norse mill or Greek mill , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] the horizontal wheel is a primitive and inefficient form of the modern turbine.
Most of these were corn mills (to grind flour), but almost any industrial process needing motive power, beyond that available from the muscles of men or animals, used a water wheel, unless a windmill was preferred. Today only a fraction of these mills survive. Many are used as private residences, or have been converted into offices.
The invention of the watermill is a question open to scholarly discussion, [5] but is generally agreed to have occurred in the ancient Near East, [5] [6] either before [6] or during the Hellenistic period. [7] In the subsequent Roman period, the use of water-power was
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.
There are over two hundred sites where the use of water power is known. These uses included corn milling, fulling, paper making, iron smelting, pumping water, making gunpowder, vegetable oil extraction, and electricity generation. Today, there is just one watermill working for trade. Those that remain have mostly been converted.
TQ 903 503 . This corn mill in Lenham is the only one that was powered by the Upper Great Stour, the other watermills in Lenham were powered by the River Len.The mill building has been converted to residential use, devoid of machinery.
Watermill, a mill powered by moving water; Windmill, a mill powered by moving air (wind) Tide mill, a water mill that uses the tide's movement; Treadmill or treadwheel, a mill powered by human or animal movement Horse mill, a mill powered by horses' movement