water elf
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Large, outlined gears and waterwheels trigger hammers that clang down on sheets of iron.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022
In October 2012, Chris Doyle, now director of biology at Solitude Lake Management, an aquatic consulting company, and his colleagues found thousands of waterwheels in Bear Swamp, near Lake Owassa in New Jersey.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2019
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Saugus, Mass.: Home to working waterwheels, forges, mills and a 17th-century dwelling.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018
A stream and waterwheels were used to serve corn, paper and cotton mills, copper-rolling and wire mills, and a brass-making works.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2013
Until waterwheels and windmills began to replace Eurasia’s mammals in medieval times, they were also the major source of its “industrial” power beyond human muscle power—for example, for turning grindstones and operating water lifts.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
