The Portugese presentation

1. Watermill in Gondelim (Portugal)

2. 
 A watermill is a mill that
uses moving water as a power
source. It is a structure that uses
a water wheel or water turbine to
drive a mechanical process such
as milling (grinding), rolling, or
hammering.
Introduction
Old Watermill in Rio Maior
(Portugal)

3. 
 Hellenistic engineers invented the two main
components of watermills: the waterwheel and
toothed gearing. And were, along with the Romans,
the first to operate undershot, overshot and breast
shot watermills.
History
Watermill in Syria Watermill in 19th century

4. 
 The flowing water would turn the spinning wheel that is
connected by a vertical wooden axle to the two millstones
that ground the wheat, on the ground floor.
Mechanism
Watermill mechanism

5. 
 A water mill, is any
type of mechanism
capable to use to
advantage the kinetic
energy of the water
movement and that it
allows, to grind grains,
to irrigate great rice
fields, to drain lands
flooded and also
generating electricity.
Utility

6. 
 In Beira Baixa exists 26 Watermills.
 In our region watermills
are mainly in Póvoa de Rio de
Moinhos.
Location

7. 
Video

8. 
 http://rio-maior-cidadania.blogspot.pt/2015_04_01_archive.html
 http://olhares.sapo.pt/azenha-de-gondelim-penacova-foto5763608.html
 http://sakuramochi-jp.blogspot.pt/2012/04/oldest-waterwheel-in-
mesopotamia.html
 https://animistjottings.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/notes-from-the-tuning-fork-
ted-hughes-and-the-calder-valley-part-4/
 http://lourical.blogspot.pt/2013/02/as-azenhas-da-torre.html
 http://giphy.com/gifs/educational-watermill-iyHMJe7k5G1rO
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermill
 http://compassrose2005.blogspot.pt/2006/08/vila-velha-de-rodo.html
 http://netin.ese.ipcb.pt/cp_patrimonio/localizacao_proenca.htm
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