Water wheel
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water-wheel-180-1934901
title:
Water wheel
text:
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a wheel, with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving car. Water wheels were still in commercial use well into the 20th century, but they are no longer in common use today. Uses included milling flour in gristmills, grinding wood into pulp for papermaking, hammering wrought iron, machining, ore crushing
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_wheel
date created:
2002-11-23T18:32:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T13:10:26Z
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