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Water mills

Structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process

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  • A mill in Northern Ireland in which flax is processed to make linen: (right) the flax is broken between rotating rollers, then (left) scutched by blades on a rotating wheel; a woman with a child carries away bundles of flax. Coloured stipple engraving by W. Hincks, 1791.
  • Carpentry: a water-mill, used for pulling boats through a lock [?]. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A young man working in a watermill holds a large flat basket of bran and gazes adoringly at a young woman as she measures out bran into a drum. Lithograph after Jules David.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, long section and plan. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Panorama of the river Thames and the buildings of the City, looking northwards beside London Bridge. Engraving by S. and N. Buck, 1749.
  • A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.
  • Fairmount Waterworks, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia. Coloured engraving by Ch. de Lalaisse after J. Noël.
  • Friar Bacon's Study, Oxford: by the river. Etching by B. Green.
  • Carpentry: a water-mill, mounted on a barge. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
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