An old engraving of a current wheel (or turbine) in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A water wheel (current wheel or tide mill – or in ancient times a ‘noria’) is a machine for converting the energy of flowing water into useful forms of power, often in milling. A stream, current or tide wheel is a vertically mounted water wheel that is rotated by the water striking paddles or blades at the bottom of the wheel. This type of water wheel is the oldest type of horizontal axis wheel. Mounted on floating platforms (as here) are also called a ‘hip wheel’.
An old engraving of a current wheel (or turbine) in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A water wheel (current wheel or mill – or in ancient times a ‘noria’) 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 (usually constructed from wood or metal), with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim. Uses included milling flour in gristmills, hammering wrought iron and machining. Some water wheels are fed by water from a dammed mill pond. Water wheels began being displaced by the smaller, less expensive and more efficient turbine, developed by Benoît Fourneyron, beginning with his first model in 1827. A stream, current or tide wheel is a vertically mounted water wheel that is rotated by the water in a water course striking paddles or blades at the bottom of the wheel. This type of water wheel is the oldest type of horizontal axis wheel. Wheels mounted on floating platforms (as shown here) are sometimes called a ‘hip wheel’.
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