The oldest water power machines, the overshot and undershot water wheels that turn the energy of flowing or falling water into useful work. A technology belongs here when its cited article describes a water wheel. These wheels drive mills and pumps without any fuel, and their designs differ in whether water strikes the wheel at the bottom, as in the undershot type, or fills buckets near the top, as in the overshot type. A machine is placed here by the wheel type the cited article names.
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Wikipedia: 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.
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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.
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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.
View the Source Reverse overshot water wheel (Wikipedia)
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Frequently used in mines and probably elsewhere (such as agricultural drainage), the reverse overshot water wheel was a Roman innovation to help remove water from the lowest levels of underground workings.
Wikipedia: Sagebien wheel
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The Sagebien wheel is a type of water wheel invented by Alphonse Sagebien of France, a hydrological engineer and a graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures.
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