By putting gears together, you can send the power from a waterwheel to a machine.
The first waterwheel we know about was in a flour mill in Byzantium, now Turkey.
The first wheel used for power was the waterwheel.
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Conventional designs at the time used the reciprocating motion to pump water into a reservoir and turn awaterwheel, or used other complex arrangements of gears and chains.
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They could also be hydraulically powered, with a turbine orwaterwheelarrangement giving the mechanical force to turn the barrel and pump the bellows.
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Thewaterwheeldrove three pairs of millstones via two lineshafts, each driven by a 2 ft diameter cast iron gear.
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Thewaterwheelhad been replaced by a turbine which drove the millstones via a great spur wheel that was only 3ft3 in diameter.
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It had two waterwheels for two grist runs and one husking run.
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They also made large mechanical puppet theatres driven by waterwheels and carriage wheels and wine-serving automatons driven by paddle wheel boats.
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The aqueduct begins at thewaterwheeland flows behind it.
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Entering the pumping chamber next to the pit head, the water turned a 23ftm 0 diameter overshotwaterwheelthat powered a nodding donkey or pumpjack.
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The milling and grinding technology and the drive (waterwheel) are built on a floating platform on this type of mill.
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Thewaterwheelwhich powered the tannery is still present.
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The mill is still used to produce animal feeds, however thewaterwheeland millpond, which remain, are no longer in use.
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The becks course was diverted to supply the millpond and power the overshotwaterwheelthat operated the mill.
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It has retained its originalwaterwheelwhich can still be seen and heard turning today.
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The sluice which powered thewaterwheeland sluice keepers cottage still exist.
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