Water Power Collection

View from the Bernshammar Sawmill, 1793. Creator: Pehr Nordquist
View from the Bernshammar Sawmill, 1793. Water power used to operate machinery in Sweden

Landscape with water mill, 1789-1859. Creator: Pieter de Goeje
Landscape with water mill, 1789-1859

Landscape with a water mill, 1605-1673. Creator: Lucas van Uden
Landscape with a water mill, 1605-1673

A Watermill, c.1664. Creator: Meindert Hobbema
A Watermill, c.1664

Le moulin, between 1772 and 1829. Creator: Jean-Louis Demarne
Le moulin, between 1772 and 1829. The Mill

The Waterwheel at Onden (Onden no suisha), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

Watermill, early-mid 19th century, (1947). Creator: James Stark
Watermill, early-mid 19th century, (1947). Watermills on the banks of a river. From " British Windmills and Watermills, by C. P. Skilton. [Collins, London, 1947]

Mill Bridge and Waterfall, early-mid 19th century, (1947). Creator: Andrew Hunt
Mill Bridge and Waterfall, early-mid 19th century, (1947). Watermill on the banks of a river. From " British Windmills and Watermills, by C. P. Skilton. [Collins, London, 1947]

Upper Powder-Works, 1872. Creator: John Filmer
Upper Powder-Works, 1872. Gunpowder mill on the Brandywine Creek, Delaware, USA. The Eleutherian Mills, used for the manufacture of explosives

Mills on Blackstone River, 1872. Creator: William Hamilton Gibson
Mills on Blackstone River, 1872. Industrial buildings in Rhode Island, USA. The first successful water-powered cotton mill in America was opened at Pawtucket Falls in 1790

Old Mill - Reemss Creek, 1872. Creator: Frederick William Quartley
Old Mill - Reemss Creek, 1872. Water mill on Reems Creek, a tributary of the French Broad River, North Carolina, USA:one of the landmarks of the days when it was a struggle between the Indian

Cumberland Gap, from the East, 1872. Creator: W. H. Morse
Cumberland Gap, from the East, 1872. Watermill near the pass through the Cumberland Mountains on the border of Kentucky and Virginia, USA. The chimney is clad in timber scaffolding

Little Falls, 1874. Creator: Frederick William Quartley
Little Falls, 1874. The Mohawk River at Little Falls, New York State, USA. The river here makes a descent of over forty feet, accomplishing the effort in three small falls

East Side, Upper Falls of the Genesee, 1874. Creator: John Douglas Woodward
East Side, Upper Falls of the Genesee, 1874. Waterfalls on the Genesee River at Rochester, New York State, USA. The...Upper Falls...are ninety-six feet in height, and it is thus evident that

Old Mill, Sages Ravine, 1874. Creator: John J. Harley
Old Mill, Sages Ravine, 1874. Water mill on the Sages Ravine Brook, near Salisbury, Connecticut, USA. At the mouth of this noble ravine there are a fine old mill

Mill on Joness Falls, 1874. Creator: John Filmer
Mill on Joness Falls, 1874. Mount Vernon cotton mills on Jones Falls, a river in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. From " Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In

Scenes on the Wissahickon, 1874. Creator: John J. Harley
Scenes on the Wissahickon, 1874. Mouth of the Wissahickon, Old Log Cabin - Bridge...Falls, Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

West Side, Upper Falls of the Genesee, 1874. Creator: W. H. Morse
West Side, Upper Falls of the Genesee, 1874. Waterfalls on the Genesee River at Rochester, New York State, USA. The...Upper Falls...are ninety-six feet in height, and it is thus evident that

Breakwater, Ramapo, 1874. Creator: A. Measom
Breakwater, Ramapo, 1874. Dam on the Ramapo, a tributary of the Pompton River, northern New Jersey, USA....the Ramapo River, a stream which finds its way between high hills

Instruments of Power for the Rushing Waters of Niagara River, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Abbey Mill, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, 2010. The fictional Abel Fletchers Mill in Dinah Craiks novel " John Halifax

Stornoway Water Wheel, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 2009. This water wheel is part of a restored watermill originally built in 1816 but destroyed by fire in 1890

Water wheel, Karavomilos Lake, Kefalonia, Greece

Double inclined plane for moving tub boats from one level to another on a canal, 1796. Boats were lowered on rails and counterbalanced by a tub containing water

Inclined planes for use on canals, 1796. Top: double inclined plane. Middle: upper works of a single inclined plane. Bottom: upper works of a medium inclined plane powered by a water wheel

Inclined plane powered by water wheel in used on a canal, 1796
Inclined plane powered by water wheel in use on a canal, 1796. The inclined plane was used to transfer vessels, in this case tub boats

Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556. Powered by a water wheel through a drive shaft. From De re metallica by Georgius Agricola. (Basel, 1556)

Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556. This technique was used to extract lead, copper, silver and gold. The mill is powered by a water wheel

Two sugar mills, West Indies, 1764. A mule-powered mill with vertical rollers (top) and one with vertical rollers powered by an overshot waterwheel (bottom) West Indies

Two horizontal water wheels, 1673. The left-hand wheel with highly curved blades, an early form of turbine, was more efficient than the one with flat blades on the right

Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Top: original form of the machine powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by a water wheel

Sectional view of Strutts model cotton mills, Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1820. Artist: William Lowry
Sectional view of Strutts model cotton mills, Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1820. Power was generated by the water wheel and distributed via a shaft and belting

Blast furnaces, 1540. Woodcut showing different forms of blast furnace, with bellows supplying draught powered by an overshot water wheel

De Kaap goldfields, Transvaal, South Africa, 1887. Water-powered stamping mill for crushing ore: Caledonian Mining Company. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 1887)

The Town Wall of Regensberg, 1817. Creator: Johann Christian Erhard
The Town Wall of Regensberg, 1817

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