breastshot waterwheel
Also known as: breast wheel
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energy conversion
- In energy conversion: Waterwheels
…a Scottish engineer, showed that breast wheels (i.e., those in which water enters at the 10- or two-o’clock position) were more efficient than overshot wheels and less vulnerable to flood damage. He used curved buckets and provided a close-fitting masonry wall to keep the water from flowing out sideways. In…
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water mills
- In waterwheel
…the undershot wheel; second, the breast wheel; and third, the overshot wheel. These waterwheels generally used the energy of moving streams, but tidal mills also appeared in the 11th century.
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