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He used Daniel Bernoulli's theoretical work on the ‘reaction effect’ to produce a horizontal waterwheel using the same principle which drives a modern lawn sprinkler.
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To power their sawmill's waterwheel, they carved out a channel which in effect created the island we know today.
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It is no different in function from the waterwheel on the old mill.
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Wind turbines turn lazily in a waft of air, a frog croaks in a pond, a small white goat munches grass along the driveway and a waterwheel makes faint sloshing noises as it turns.
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Electricity generated through the use of waterwheels or hydraulic turbines is known as hydroelectric power.
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He applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.
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On weekends, you can witness the mill in operation; the waterwheel provides a never-ending display of splashes in the sunlight.
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By 1812 Jefferson had three threshing machines in operation, two powered by horses and one by a waterwheel.
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Because of the size of the engine, it is started using power from the waterwheel, which is on the opposite side of the mill, through the main drive shaft.
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The lower stone was fixed and the upper one turned by the machinery (driven by a waterwheel in this case).
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A sluice gate, half hidden behind the roof of the mill, controls the water to power the waterwheel.
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Surviving machinery includes a waterwheel, shaft and stones, although it hasn't worked since the 1920s.
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The water mill, here nestled in a deep valley, is driven by a large, undershot, vertical waterwheel and right-angle gearing.
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In an era when the nonmuscular power sources included only a few types of sails and waterwheels, such a realization was no small matter.
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New waterwheels were finished, as were new pumps and exhaust blowers for the acid towers.
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He applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.
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He also designed waterwheels in Ulm and made mathematical and surveying instruments, particularly ones with military applications.
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In early medieval Europe, waterwheels powered olive presses, crushed mash, drove pumps, and operated the bellows of the blacksmith's furnace and forge.
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The restored mill has a 36 '"overshot" waterwheel so called because water pours on top of the wheel, directed there by a long "flume" that brings water from a nearby pond.
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At the head of the wooded valley the mine bousteads – where miners stored ore that they brought to the surface – have been repointed and work is nearing completion on the waterwheel pit and mountings of the Armstrong hydraulic engine that once hauled miners up the 177-metre shaft, the deepest in the dale.
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Surviving machinery includes a waterwheel, shaft and stones, although it hasn't worked since the 1920s.
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Her father eventually made a waterwheel down by the river to charge a car battery and ran a radio from that.
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Every 60 seconds, a ball bearing drops from the left bucket on the channel to the waterwheel.
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The photograph shows an islander standing in the lade that channels water from the adjacent burn into the waterwheel below.
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A stone basin, sealed with pitch, was added later, to combat the problem of silting, and this provided drinking water for ships; it also powered a small waterwheel used to raise water from the basin.
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The waterwheel shaft and main gearing are well below the first floor of the mill.
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Other activities will include Victorian toys to play with and demonstrations of the mill's spinning mules, waterwheel and the power loom.
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Back in the '60s the West German and U.S. governments had invested in civil infrastructure for the hospitals, but both the small hydroelectric power station and waterwheel-based potable water system had fallen into disrepair and were inoperable.
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By 1812 Jefferson had three threshing machines in operation, two powered by horses and one by a waterwheel.
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They worked at the many machines powered by turning waterwheels in the factory basements, producing sheetings, calicoes, broadcloths, carpets, and rugs for a growing market.
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While describing his contributions to fluid mechanics we should also note the contributions he made to the study of waterwheels and pumps.
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The mill was demolished after the First World War. It had an overshot waterwheel of 15 feet diameter.
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The huge waterwheel drove two pumps and the lathe.
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To power their sawmill's waterwheel, they carved out a channel which in effect created the island we know today.
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At one time, this may have been a mill chase with a waterwheel turning.
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Power was needed, so he slung a waterwheel in a nearby stream and added a steam auxiliary generator for good measure.
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The remains consist of the central mill chamber, where the waterwheels were housed between the two mill buildings.
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Near the bridge is an old mill complete with a waterwheel which has been restored by the same Trust which looks after the Heritage Centre.
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Set to watch the sheep, he would instead build model waterwheels, and other gadgets, and the sheep would often escape.
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Five pairs of nineteenth-century fulling stocks are preserved here, as well as the eighteen-foot breastshot waterwheel and a rotative beam engine.
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The waterwheel distantly chunked and gurgled.
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The remains appear to represent the base of the wheel pit for a vertical waterwheel.
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A sluice gate, half hidden behind the roof of the mill, controls the water to power the waterwheel.
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They worked at the many machines powered by turning waterwheels in the factory basements, producing sheetings, calicoes, broadcloths, carpets, and rugs for a growing market.
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At one time, this may have been a mill chase with a waterwheel turning.
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It has an area of 280 square metres and is complete with waterwheel, gears and shafts, millstones and fans and sieves for the processing of grain.
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We were quartered in dormitories in the lodge, which, being miles from anywhere, was lit by electricity generated by an ingenious waterwheel in the millstream.
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On Saturday Abby showed us the delights of Shingo town which included a tree that looked like a giant cotton bud, a massive waterwheel and some koi carp which Johanna tried to feed with a dead crab.
