Water wheel
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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, with numerous blades
The reversible water wheel powering a mine hoist in De re metallica (Georgius Agricola, 1566)
A vertical water wheel
One of Finch Foundry's water wheels.
The Anderson Mill of Texas is undershot, backshot, and overshot using two sources of water. This allows the direction of the wheel to be reversed.
Laxey Wheel
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The Laxey Wheel is built into the hillside above the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man. It is the largest surviving original working waterwheel in the world. Designed by Robert Casement, the wheel h
Water wheel
…They are suited to larger heads than the other type of wheel so they are ideally suited to hilly countries. However even the largest water wheel, the Laxey Wheel in the Isle of Man, only utilises a head of around 30 m (100 ft). The world's largest head turbines, Bieudron Hydroelectric Power Station in Switzerland…
Laxey Wheel panoramio
A historical image from around 1900
The triskelion on the front of the wheel is backwards. This happened by accident when the image was being transferred onto the wall; they forgot to reverse it, so it is actually a mirror image of the symbol of Mann.
The T-rocker, which transfers the horizontal motion of the crank on the waterwheel axle into a vertical motion to work the pumps in the mine