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Who made the first water wheel?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The earliest clear evidence of a water wheel comes from the ancientGreece and Asia minor, being recorded in the work of Apollonius of Perge of c. 240 BC, surviving only in Arabic translation. This has led to suggestions that it may be a later Arabic addition to the treatise.[3] Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus had a water mill at his palace at Cabira before 71 BC.[4] In the 1st century BC, the Greek epigrammatist Antipater of Thessalonica was the earliest to make a clear reference to the waterwheel, which Lewis has recently argued to be a vertical wheel. Antipater praised it for its use in grinding grain and the reduction of human labour:

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