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Example sentences for "waterwheel"

Lexicographically close words:
waterspout; waterspouts; watertight; waterway; waterways; waterworks; waterworn; watery; wath; wather
  1. Boone Waterwheel Connected with Model Lathe] There is one more side (at least) to the boy and girl business--earning money.

  2. Boone A Real Derrick in Miniature, Operated by Means of a Waterwheel (at the right).

  3. Set the shute so that the end is above the blade of the waterwheel and allows the water to fall on it with sufficient force to turn it round.

  4. The waterwheel has flat blades with no bevelling, and a thick wire is inserted through its axis.

  5. This is a waterwheel with a watershute, and it turns a crank and has a little man attached.

  6. The transmitter had long ago been taken into the caves but the generator and waterwheel were still there, frozen in a tomb of ice.

  7. It was early fall of the year thirty-five then, and the water that gushed from the pipe splashed in cold drops against Humbolt as the waterwheel was set in motion.

  8. A boy was given the job of operating the key and the signal went out daily until the freezing of winter stopped the waterwheel that powered the generator.

  9. The Waterwheel Falls may be reached by a good trail 5.

  10. The Muir Gorge, a vertical-walled cleft in the canyon a half mile deep, is, as a result, but 2 hours below Waterwheel Falls and the same above Pate Valley by the new trails.

  11. Trails built a few years ago down the canyon from the Waterwheel Falls to Pate Valley penetrate the very heart of the gorge.

  12. Through the stackyard flowed the stream which was such a feature of Chagmouth, and here its glittering, tumbling waters had been harnessed to turn a waterwheel that worked a churn, a turnip-cutter, and other farm implements.

  13. A model of a wind-driven waterwheel used for raising water into the evaporating beds in salt works.

  14. Prominent in figure 4 is an aqueduct, one function of which is to supply a waterwheel in the house below, which in turn delivers power through the Stangenkunst to two open shafts.

  15. Figure 1 shows an overshot waterwheel driving through Stangenkunsten pumps in three separate shafts, each covered by the typical conical shaft house.

  16. Such is the case with the Kehrrad, a bucket windlass driven by a reversible waterwheel which Agricola describes as his largest hauling machine.

  17. Figure 3 exhibits the principal advantage of the Stangenkunst, in its utilization to connect a waterwheel located in a valley stream to driven machinery on the mountain some distance above.

  18. The waterwheel turned a shaft which lifted hammers to pound the wet cloth in a trough.

  19. The waterwheel was a technological advance replacing human labor whereby the cloth was made more compact and thick, "fulled".

  20. This waterwheel is designed to be placed in a flowing stream.

  21. This motor is a waterwheel designed for an ordinary hose faucet.

  22. Some of these had the waterwheel simply built on the river; others had it so arranged as to allow the shaft to be raised or lowered to suit the varying height of water in floods and droughts.

  23. A waterwheel (in vain covered for concealment) pumps up water to flow from an inverted horn amid a group of statuary in this romantic pond, and the stream flowing from it also joins the others, now the Danube.

  24. Blowing engine by Vanuccio Biringuccio, about 1540, showing conversion of motion of the waterwheel shaft from rotation to oscillation.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterwheel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.