Water wheel

Water wheels were used for things such as agriculture and for energy. Hundreds of water wheels were built in the middle of the 11th century.

• One of the oldest sources of power known

• First type of power not generated by animals or humans

• Nearly 6000 water wheels in England in 1806, doubled in the next two hundred years

• Evidence that water power was used since at least 300 BC in egypt

• Impacted way of life, saved time, money

It is important to know about old ways of making energy because it might be able to help in the future

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