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Encyclopedia: Water wheel

For water wheels used to drive boats, see paddle wheel. For wheels used solely to lift water see noria. For factories or industries driven by water wheels see watermill.

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How to say "Water wheel" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	水車
	(German)	Wasserrad

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Chatfield Hollow State Park

water wheel. The park is 356 acres (1.4 km²) big...

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Banki turbine

hydropower system similar in appearance to an over-shot water-wheel. Unlike the water-wheel, however..." water-wheel. Water flowing into the top of the turbine not only spins the wheel by its weight, but... extracts additional power via Newton's Third Law. A venturi enhances this effect by funneling the water...

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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet

site. For most of its life, its heavy tilt hammers and grinding wheels have been powered by water wheels. The buildings and furnaces, the water wheels and the machinery they operate, have been preserved...

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Pelton wheel

A pelton wheel is one of the most efficient types of water wheel. Nozzles direct forceful streams of water against a series of spoon shaped buckets mounted around the edge of a wheel. Each bucket... he is inspired by a water wheel whose axle came loose while he was working on it. The water jet hit...

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Robert Fludd

means of a water wheel and Archimedean screw. The device pumps the water back into its own supply...

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San Jiao

metabolism mechanism similar to an old-fashioned water-wheel that is turned by incoming water and creates energy for accomplishing a task, such as grinding grain in the case of the water wheel, or for...

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Nürnberger Land

Nuremberg. In the bottom part there is a water wheel representing the watermills on the river Pegnitz...

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Penrose triangle

short sides of both triangles, drives a water wheel. Escher helpfully points out that in order to keep the wheel turning some water must occasionally be added to compensate for evaporation. The concept...

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Sawmill

A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards. The first sawmills were powered by water wheels. Generally only the saw was powered and the logs had to be loaded and moved by hand. A... could be built away from water and could be far more mechanized. Efficiency was increased, but the...

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Cotton gin

cotton gins were hand-powered; larger ones were harnessed to horses or water wheels. The cotton gin...

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