2015年1月19日 · Recent archaeological discoveries of early medieval horizontal water-wheels in Ireland have shed important new light on the origins and technical development of the horizontal water-wheel in Asia and Europe. As will be argued below, based on this evidence, a number of general patterns are beginning to emerge.

2020年3月10日 · Warwick Castle - Engine House, Waterwheel, Weir, and Old Castle Bridge. Image credit: DeFacto/Wikimedia.org. In addition to building Windsor Castle, William the Conqueror also built Warwick Castle in 1068 AD. The castle housed the Earl of Warwick for many centuries until 1978, when it was sold to be turned into a tourist attraction. 5.

With a diameter of 13,6 meters, it is the largest preserved wooden waterwheel of its kind Europe. It operated uninterrupted for 158 years until 1948. The wheel made 4 or 5 turns in a minute, and the pumps had a pumping capacity of approximately 300 litres of pit water per minute from a depth of almost 300 metres below the surface.

2018年1月8日 · Elvaston Water Wheel. In the mid 1970's Derbyshire Archaeological Society and the Leicestershire Industrial History Society were approached with a view to assist in the rebuilding of the pump house and as a consequence the waterwheel was completely refurbished with new floats and float frames, and the pumps were also rebuilt.

1997年9月22日 · The authors trace the inventory of medieval Europe's now undoubted technological achievement through one introductory and six chronologically ordered chapters that demonstrate not only their remarkably well-informed and articulate mastery of technical detail but also their command of the historiographical issues that continue to enliven this ...

2010年9月21日 · “The flame of human ingenuity burned with surprising intensity during the medieval centuries . . . the Gieses here explode the myth of the Dark Ages, showing that the Fall of Rome did not plunge...

2020年11月16日 · The Barbegal watermills in southern France are a unique complex dating back to the 2nd century AD. The construction with 16 waterwheels is, as far as is known, the first attempt in Europe to build a machine complex on an industrial scale. The complex was created when the Roman Empire was at the height of its power.

2018年1月25日 · At the time, it was the largest waterwheel of its kind in the world and was named Aeolus after a character in Greek Mythology. Aeolus, as mentioned in the Odyssey and the Aeneid, was the keeper of the winds and king of the island of Aeolia, one of the abrupt rocky Lipara islands close to Sicily.

The Sagebien Water Wheel: Rolls Royce of the water wheels. There was already mention of a water mill in Geldrop in the Middle Ages as well as a document from 1798 which describes a double water mill which functioned as a grain, oil and fulling mill.