Ship mill
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A ship mill, more commonly known as a boat mill, is a type of watermill. The milling and grinding technology and the drive are built on a floating platform on this type of mill. Its first recorded use
The ship mill at Minden, Germany
A ship mill (drawing 1 after H.Ernst, 1805)
A ship mill (drawing 2 after H.Ernst, 1805)
German ship mills on the Rhine at Cologne, around 1411
Watermill
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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, rolling, or hammering. Such processe
Ship mill
…A ship mill, more commonly known as a boat mill, is a type of watermill. The milling and grinding technology and the drive (waterwheel) are built on a floating platform on this type of mill. Its first recorded use dates…
Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century)
Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century)
Model of a Roman water-powered grain mill described by Vitruvius. The millstone (upper floor) is powered by an undershot waterwheel by the way of a gear mechanism (lower floor)
Roman turbine mill at Chemtou, Tunisia. The tangential water inflow of the millrace made the horizontal wheel in the shaft turn like a true turbine, the earliest known.