'Great Wheel at Laxby', 1898. Laxey Wheel on a hillside above the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man, designed by Robert Casement to pump water from the Great Laxey Mines industrial complex, was the largest working waterwheel in the world. From "Our Own Country, Volume V". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1898]

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