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		The most common use of the water wheel was to mill flour, where it was known as the watermill, but other uses included foundry work and machining, and pounding linen for use in paper.
		Water wheels used shafts driving belts to transmit power from the wheel to machinery.
		The technology of the water wheel had long been known, but it was not put into widespread use until the Middle Ages when an acute shortage of labour made machines such as the water wheel cost effective.
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		The Norse wheel has a vertical shaft directly connected at the top to a millstone; the lower end of the shaft, with vanes or paddles attached, dips into the flowing stream.
		One of the first uses of the steam engine was to drive a pump that raised water into a millpond whose spillway drove a water wheel.
		Water Wheel creditors set for a turn in their fortunes.
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	Water-wheel at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The most common use of the waterwheel was to mill flour, where it was known as the watermill, but other uses included machining and pounding linen for use in paper.
		A water-wheel consists of a large wheel, typically wooden, with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving surface.
		The under-shot design places the wheel over a fast-flowing body of water.
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	Water wheels - Rees's Clepsydra 1819
		The Pelton wheel uses the momentum of a water jet impinging on buckets attached to the periphery of a wheel to produce power.
		Waterwheels used the power of water running downstream in a river to turn The undershot wheel is an impulse wheel, since the water imparts its energy by
		Water wheels were used for irrigation as long ago as 500 BCE, (before the common era), Horizontal water wheels were used to grind grain into flour.
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		Historic water wheels came in two basic forms – undershot and overshot.
		Overshot & pitchback waterwheels are suitable where there is a small stream with a height difference of more than 2 metres, often in association with a small reservoir.
		The most powerful waterwheel built in the United Kingdom was the 100 hp Quarry Bank Waterwheel near Manchester.
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	definition of water wheel
		A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.
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