Noria700-600 BC |
Noria, courtesy of Bruce Salters, W.P. Law Inc. |
Year: 700 BCManufacturer: UnknownType: Egyptian Water WheelTypical use: Agriculture(Egyptian Water Wheel) A wheel with buckets or clay pots along its circumference, the wheel was turned by the current of the river.
The flow filled buckets by immersion and as it rotated the upper buckets are emptied by gravity into a trough or aqueduct. The empty buckets then returned to be refilled.
The Noria provided the ancient world with its first non-human operated lifting device. |
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