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Model of breast water wheel with pentrough sluice

1868

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Undershot Water Wheel, mid 19th Century

1834-1866

Overshot Water Wheel, 1834-1866

1834-1866

Overshot Water Wheel, mid 19th Century

1834-1866

Smeaton's Apparatus for Determining the Efficiency of Water Wheels

1988 (model); 1752 (original)

Model, (scale 1:12), of breast shot water wheel ventilated buckets with rack and pinion operated sluice, by Whitmore & Binyon, Wickham Market, Suffolk, England, 1883-1891.

Breast-shot Water Wheel, c. 1888

1883-1891

Model, (scale 1:24), of high breast waterwheel at Wheal Friendship near Tavistock, Devon, with transmission, rods and bell crank levers. Contemporary model of the 'Old Sump Wheel', exhibited at the Great Exhibition, 1851. Made by Nathaniel Smith of Mary Tavy, Devon, England, 1844-1850.

Backshot Water Wheel, 1844-1850

1844-1850

model of overshot waterwheel on wooden stand (Watt Collection no. 1813)

Overshot waterwheel, made in the 1800s

1876