Various representations of hydrodynamics, Wurtemberg, c1850. 2) Fountain: 3) Persian wheel or Noria: 4) Archimedes' Screw: 5) Chain pump: 6&7)...
Engraving showing metalworkers heating, hammering and shaping iron. The waterwheel powers rollers used to flatten the metal into sheets. From �Regnum...
Waterwheel, Old Mill, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, 1900. There are four watermills in Chipping Campden on the sites of medieval mills mentioned...
Engraving depicting a man carrying a sack of corn over a wooden bridge to a water-driven mill for it to be ground into flour, while women do the...
Engraving depicting a water wheel used to drive the machinery at Ashworth's cotton mill, Turton, near Bolton, Lancashire. Dated 19th century.
Built to grind corn, it later became a flint mill and is now being restored as a working museum. 1970
August 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Blaubeuren: The water from the Blautopf drives the water wheel of the historic hammer mill. The water emerges from a...
Mapledurham Mill, Mapledurham, South Oxfordshire, 1885. The watermill at Mapledurham showing the undershot waterwheel. Creator: Unknown.
Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power, Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari, dated...
Great Wheel at Laxby', 1898. Laxey Wheel on a hillside above the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man, designed by Robert Casement to pump water from...
Traditional French houses, water wheel and millrace at Angles Sur L'Anglin medieval village, Vienne, near Poitiers, France
Work in an Iron Foundry and Smithy During The Period of the Middle Ages', circa 1934. Illlustration showing iron founding and tool-making. The...
