Water Wheel Collection (#4)

Visicks Basset works, Devoran, Cornwall. About 1915
A group of women standing outdoors at a bench, cleaning off sand and scale from trench mortar bomb warheads at Visicks Basset works, a foundry, in Devoran, Cornwall

The Norias of Bechriyyat in Hama, Syria. The waterwheels at Hama, known as Norias, are up to 20m high and have been standing since the 13th century The Norias of Bechriyyat in Hama

Agriculture in ancient Egypt, using a wheel or tabut and oxen. From La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, published 1892

Kings Landing Historical Settlement in Autumn New Brunswick, Canada

Illustration depicting Castle Mill

Engraving depicting a water mill

Watermill and waterfall; Spain

Landscape village water foreground man boat right
Landscape with a village on the water, Landscape with a village on the water and in the foreground a man in a boat. To the right of the man is a bridge that leads to the village wall

Water wheel Hama 1898 Syria Ḥamāh
Water wheel, Hama. 1898, Syria, ß©ñam─üh

Folio 10 piston pumps water wheel Edificij et
Folio 10 piston pumps and water wheel, Edificij et machine MS, Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502, Brown ink and wash on paper, between ca. 1475 and ca. 1480

View Of Mount Fiji From A Japanese Garden; Honshu, Japan

The Town Wall of Regensberg, 1817. Creator: Johann Christian Erhard
The Town Wall of Regensberg, 1817

The Nurse, ca. 1674. Creator: Denis Colandon
The Nurse, ca. 1674

Marford Mill, Denbighshire, c1795. Artist: JMW Turner
Marford Mill, Denbighshire. Water-colour by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. 1923. From The Studio Volume 85. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1923]

Hydes Mill in Fall Colors
Wisconsins roads along miles and miles of magnificent scenery through deep woods, broad vistas from high ridges and rock bluffs over deep clear brooks

Illustration of overshot water wheel in hydroelectric power station and smaller image of old water mill

Chagford Old Mill, Devon, showing the water wheel. June 1929

RSR 2 / 6th Battalion, Persian Wheel, for drawing water
Royal Sussex Regiment Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: RSR Acc 4545 2/6th Batt/433 1916-19 Photograph

Water flow mechanisms, artwork C016 / 4311
Water flow mechanisms. Artwork of a range of water flow devices, including a water wheel (centre), an Archimedean screw (lower left), and a garden pavilion with fountains (right)

Bosham Mill, 1 November 1898
Shows the mill and surrounding buildings. Two men are loading straw into a horse-drawn cart. Photographic Collection West Sussex Record Office, Ref No PH/26113/65

Mill on the River Isla at Ruthven, Scotland
Mill on the River Isla (the main tributary of the River Tay) at Ruthven, Angus, Scotland. Date: 1907

The Water Wheel, c1839. Artist: David Cox the elder
The Water Wheel, c1839. From A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the collection of Frederick John Nettleford, Volume I, by C. Reginald Grundy and F. Gordon Roe [Emrose and Sons Ltd

Water wheel, Egypt, c1890. Artist: Newton & Co
Water wheel, Egypt, c1890. Lantern slide

A Spring Morning on the River Yodo, c1870 (1886). Artist: Wilhelm Greve
A Spring Morning on the River Yodo, c1870 (1886). Ganku School. From a painting on silk by Shiwogawa Bunrin. A print from The Pictorial Arts of Japan, by William Anderson, Sampson Low, Marston

Old mill, Vallee des Vaux, Jersey, 1924-1926. A print from Hutchinsons Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume I, 1924-1926

An Egyptian Sakiyeh, Drawing Nile Water for Irrigation, Egypt, 1896. From The Underwood Travel Library - Egypt. [Underwood & Underwood, London, New York, 1896]

Holly Street, 1847, (1938). Artist: George Burrell Willcock
Holly Street, 1847, (1938). Holy Street Mill, Chagford, Devon. Held in the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester Arts and Museums Service, Leicester

Laxey Wheel, Isle of Man, 1904. Artist: E Florian
Laxey Wheel, Isle of Man, 1904. The Laxey Wheel (also known as Lady Isabella) is a large waterwheel built in the town of Laxey in the Isle of Man

A flour mill, 1886. Illustration from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, by Charles Tomlinson, Volume I, (Jamess Virtue, London, 1886)

The Old Mill, Ambleside, Cumbria, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, The second series of British royal and ancient buildings

Melon Islands, and Irrigating Wheel, China, c1840. Artist: Henry Adlard
Melon Islands, and Irrigating Wheel, China, c1840

Fujimi Fuji view field in the Owari province (from a Series 36 Views of Mount Fuji), 1830-1833. Artist: Hokusai
Fujimi Fuji view field in the Owari province (from a Series 36 Views of Mount Fuji), 1830-1833

Water Mill, 19th century. Artist: Gustave Courbet
Water Mill, 19th century. Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A forge, ironworks, 1751-1777. Artist: Denis Diderot
A forge, ironworks, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

Double inclined plane for moving tub boats from one level to another on a canal, 1796. Boats were lowered on rails and counterbalanced by a tub containing water

Inclined planes for use on canals, 1796. Top: double inclined plane. Middle: upper works of a single inclined plane. Bottom: upper works of a medium inclined plane powered by a water wheel

Inclined plane powered by water wheel in used on a canal, 1796
Inclined plane powered by water wheel in use on a canal, 1796. The inclined plane was used to transfer vessels, in this case tub boats

Persian wheel raising water from the Sutlej River, Punjab, 1842. Artist: James Atkinson
Persian wheel raising water from the Sutlej River, Punjab, 1842. From Sketches of Afghanistan by James Atkinson. (London, 1842)

Various representations of hydrodynamics, Wurtemberg, c1850. 2) Fountain: 3) Persian wheel or Noria: 4) Archimedes Screw: 5) Chain pump: 6&7) Suction and force pumps: 8) Fire engine: 10, 11

Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556. Powered by a water wheel through a drive shaft. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556)

Two horizontal water wheels, 1673. The left-hand wheel with highly curved blades, an early form of turbine, was more efficient than the one with flat blades on the right

Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Top: original form of the machine powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by a water wheel

Waterwheel for a mill in Hungary. Artist: CM Dixon
Waterwheel for a mill at Zalaegerszeg in Hungary

Draining a mine using a series of suction pumps powered by a water wheel, 1556. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556)

Sectional view of Strutts model cotton mills, Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1820. Artist: William Lowry
Sectional view of Strutts model cotton mills, Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1820. Power was generated by the water wheel and distributed via a shaft and belting

Bellows operated by a camshaft powered by a water wheel, 1540. This application of the medieval invention of the cam enabled both bellows to be powered by the same water wheel

Bellows supplying draught to a smelting furnace, 1556. The bellows are operated by a camshaft powered by a water wheel (just visible at extreme right)

Forge with bellows driven by an undershot water wheel through cranks, 1673. From Theatrum Machinarum Novum by Georg Andreas Bockler. (Nuremberg, 1673)

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