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

ISBN: 0801825547

ISBN13: 9780801825545

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

(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series and Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series)

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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 mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a Hundred Men explores the development of the vertical water wheel from its invention in ancient times through its eventual demise as a source of power during...

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