waterwheel betydelse and definition

Exempel på waterwheel

• By putting gears together, you can send the power from a waterwheel to a machine. 

• The first waterwheel we know about was in a flour mill in Byzantium, now Turkey. 

• The first wheel used for power was the waterwheel. 

• Conventional designs at the time used the reciprocating motion to pump water into a reservoir and turn a waterwheel, or used other complex arrangements of gears and chains.

• I would ask, then, why is not a waterwheel excluded?

• They could also be hydraulically powered, with a turbine or waterwheel arrangement giving the mechanical force to turn the barrel and pump the bellows.

• The waterwheel drove three pairs of millstones via two lineshafts, each driven by a 2 ft diameter cast iron gear.

• The waterwheel had been replaced by a turbine which drove the millstones via a great spur wheel that was only 3ft3 in diameter.