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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 ...
Weaving machines. The mill was powered by a low breastshot water wheel, 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) in diameter driving the machinery through line shafting.There are currently 15 looms in total, 10 Tappet looms dating to 1890–1932, 3 Dobby looms dating to the 1950s and 2 1960s Hattersley looms acquired in 1972.
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Fort Worth’s Trinity River water wheel initiative is facing significant changes as plans are being reworked. The project involves a machine that collects floating trash from the river.
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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.
A satellite image of circular fields characteristic of center pivot irrigation, Kansas Farmland with circular pivot irrigation. Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers.
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