A report on Watermill, Trip hammer and Hydropower
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
- WatermillThese watermills may comprise gristmills, sawmills, paper mills, textile mills, hammermills, trip hammering mills, rolling mills, wire drawing mills.
- WatermillSince ancient times, hydropower from watermills has been used as a renewable energy source for irrigation and the operation of mechanical devices, such as gristmills, sawmills, textile mills, trip hammers, dock cranes, domestic lifts, and ore mills.
- HydropowerHistorically, trip hammers were often powered hydraulically by a water wheel.
- Trip hammerGrain-pounders with pestles, as well as ordinary watermills, are attested as late as the middle of the 5th century AD in a monastery founded by Romanus of Condat in the remote Jura region, indicating that the knowledge of trip hammers continued into the early Middle Ages.
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