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. . . . Water-wheels were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but were far from common; thanks to an early medieval proto-Industrial Revolution, they quickly became widespread around the end of the first millennium CE. The Domesday Book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book records more than six thousand mills driven by water-wheels in England in 1086. Vertical windmills followed quickly: the first securely dated one was in Weedley, Yorkshire, in 1185. Given that the greatest concentration of medieval watermills was in England, it is surely not a coincidence that it was in England that we find both the first recorded vertical windmill and the first recorded clock. Steam did not overtake water and wind as a source of power until after 1830; in Swift’s Laputa, as in eighteenth-century England steam power did not replace water power but supplemented it. ~ Page 484

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