Water wheel
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of free-flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a large wooden or metal wheel, with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving surface. Most commonly, the wheel is mounted vertically on a horizontal axle, but the tub or Norse wheel is mounted horizontally on a vertical shaft. Vertical wheels can transmit power either through the axle or via a ring gear and typically drive belts or gears; horizontal wheels usually directly drive their load.
Water wheels were still in commercial use well into the 20th century, but they are no longer in common use. Prior uses of water wheels include milling flour in gristmills and grinding wood into pulp for papermaking, but other uses include hammering wrought iron, machining, ore crushing and pounding fiber for use in the manufacture of cloth.
Some water wheels are fed by water from a mill pond, which is formed when a flowing stream is dammed. A channel for the water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race (also spelled millrace) or simply a "race", and is customarily divided into sections. The race bringing water from the mill pond to the water wheel is a headrace; the one carrying water after it has left the wheel is commonly referred to as a tailrace.
Waterwheel (website)
Waterwheel is an "interactive and collaborative platform", capable of being used as a medium for sharing media and ideas, performances and presentations. It allows users to upload and engage with media, and provides a platform through which the media can be utilised and expanded on in a live performance. Waterwheel was instigated by Suzon Fuks.
Waterwheel is a free Thematic digital performance platform that sends out an invitation to everyone, “performers and artists, scientists and environmentalists, students and academics”, anyone who is capable of accessing their facilities to, in their own words, “test the water”.
There have been symposiums held to discuss the matters Waterwheel stand for.
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Waterwheel (disambiguation)
A Water wheel is a machine for converting falling or flowing water into useful power.
Water wheel or Waterwheel may also refer to:
Podcasts:
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by Hall & Oates
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by Clifford T Ward
Waterwheel
by: Hall & OatesI heard you call me, waterwheel
Spin 'round, 'round in a circle
Gracing my child dreams on fantasy hill
Spin 'round, 'round in a circle
Flash, paddles sending a spray to the air
Lately, my thoughts are still with you there
As you spin 'round
'Round in a boyhood daydream, spin 'round
My thoughts are drifting to a quieter time
Spin 'round, 'round in a circle
Green covered slippery water-rocks I used to climb
Spin 'round, 'round in a circle
Father and child walking down by the canyon
Lately, my thoughts are still with them there
As they spin 'round
'Round in a boyhood daydream, spin 'round
Flash, paddles sending a spray to the air
Lately, my thoughts are still with you there
As you spin 'round