Unknown or General

Water Wheel

Chinese WaterWheelChinese WaterWheel The Water Wheel is probably the oldest power driven machine or engine not operated by men or animals.
Early water power plants were either Norse Water WheelNorse Water Wheel styled like the Norse wheels, vertical undershot wheel, vertical overshot wheel, then geared vertical overshot and undershot.
WaterMills on the Grand Pont, ParisWaterMills on the Grand Pont, Paris

Printing Press

Printing Press

16th century
Impressio Librorvm
By Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus)

Treadwheel crane harwich2

Treadwheel crane harwich2

Illustration of 1667 England Navy Yard

Treadwheel Morgan Bible

Treadwheel Morgan Bible

A high medieval construction site from the Morgan or Maciejowski Bible, around 1250.

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