Functional Analysis of Piedmont (Italy) Ancient Water Mills Aimed at Their Recovery or Reconversion

Since ancient times and for hundreds of years, grain mills, hammers, sawmills, spinning mills, and hemp rollers have been powered by water wheels. In the nineteenth century there were hundreds of thousands of mills in all of Europe. It is an enormous historical and cultural heritage of inestimable v...

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Main Authors: Walter Franco, Carlo Ferraresi, Roberto Revelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Machines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/7/2/32