Who invented the waterwheel?

Answer 1

The waterwheel is an ancient device that uses flowing or falling water to create power by means of a set of paddles mounted around a wheel. The force of the water moved the paddles, and the consequent rotation of the wheel is transmitted to machinery via the shaft of the wheel. One of the first references to its use dates back to about 400 B.C., where, in a poem by an early Greek writer, Antipater, it tells about the freedom from the toil of young women who operated small handmills to grind corn.

However, it is not the only reference to water, and definitely not the first,since there is strong evidence that Sumerians from ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) used them for irrigation at around 5000-4000 BC. They were used for crop irrigation, grinding grains, supply drinking water to villages and later to drive sawmills, pumps, forge bellows, tilt-hammers, trip hammers, and to power textile mills. They were probably the first method of creating mechanical energy that replaced humans and animals.

A diagram was made of it, it was (not built) by Leonardo da vinci in 1480-1482 A.D.

Samual Slater brought the idea from Britain.

Answer 2

a guy

Improved anwser:

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Answer 3

Water wheels were designed first to grain and crush the Roman's olives to manufacture oil. : )

Answer 4

the water wheel was invented in florence, Italy by a guy named rulio de samarito

Answer 5

The invention of water wheel is 2000 yrs old.

The first account of a water wheel combined with a bucket chain was given by Philon of Byzanz.

Answer 6

by Christina Argularia

Answer 7

To save gas for the future.

Answer 8

19th century