Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel by Terry S. Reynolds

Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Terry S. Reynolds

480 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history technology medium-paced
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Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mi...

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