Newport Historical Society
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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, 1922, Vol. 39 The next step was the power water mill, first in a very primitive manner, derived from the Greek water mill. This simple little machine, with its horizontal wheel and devoid of gearing, under the designation of the Norse Mill, sur vives, in some places, to the present day. In the Greek water mill the/ wheel which lay vertically upon or in the water and revolved an upright central shaft standing on a stone in the bed of the stream or in a dry channel to which the water was conveyed by a trough, the upper end of the shaft or spindle passed through the lower of the two querns like grinding stones placed above, but was fixed to the upper stone. Thus the water wheel, the shaft and top stone all revolved together. This arrangement would grind very slowly, as one revolution of the water wheel would of course only produce one revolution of the grinding stone. This mill was generally to be found over the greater part of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.