Hierapolis sawmill
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hierapolis-sawmill-213-1470616
title:
Hierapolis sawmill
text:
The Hierapolis sawmill was a water-powered stone sawmill in the Ancient Greek city of Hierapolis in Roman Asia. Dating to the second half of the 3rd century AD, the sawmill is considered the earliest known machine to combine a crank with a connecting rod to form a crank-slider mechanism. The watermill is evidenced by a raised relief on the sarcophagus of a certain Marcus Aurelius Ammianos, a local miller. On the pediment a waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown powering via a gear train two fram
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Roman water-powered stone sawmill
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis_sawmill
date created:
2009-12-15T01:46:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T09:43:20Z
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