Talk:Water wheel

message: Hello,
This site was helpful for me to analyze a 1925 photograph I have of an undershot waterwheel in Weston, Massachusetts. I happened to notice that the diagram for the breastshot waterwheel is mixed up. The water flow is pointing from the tail race towards the wheel, exactly the opposite of how the term tail race was defined. I hope someone can fix it.
174.62.174.149 (talk) 00:41, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breastshot waterwheel diagram 

message: * Terry S, Reynolds, Stronger than a Hundred Men; A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Robert, Friedel, A Culture of Improvement. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England. (2007). p. 33., has been challenged as an notable reference.
* Spelling inconsistency- The word labour has always posed problem for some readers- the best way forward is to find an alternative word and write it out of the sentence. Does anyone have sufficient programming skills to write a template that checks the readers location or settings- and automatically renders out the letter 'u' for readers living west of the Scilly Isles, and north of Havana and south of the 59th parallel? A bigger problem is the word Fibre. Just a thought -- Clem Rutter (talk) 19:52, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  The ref is still there, isn't it? I wouldn't be at all surprised to find "labor" was as old and valid a spelling as "labour". I did find the emphasis on "European" achievements to be uncomfortable, even for Wikipedia - we have enough neglect through ignorance of the rest of the world, we don't have to blow the horn so loud here do we? --Wtshymanski (talk) 22:19, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Put is straight- this style of writing is not one I aspire to, but in the context of flowery prose it is consistent. The problem is that it does reflect the facts, and the cradle of the early industrial revolution was Shropshire and the European waterwheel did enable iron to be processed in a way that it wasn't in Asia or Africa. The technology was soon exported to the European settlers in New England. Yes, I agree it is chauvanist- and verging on racist and could profitably be rewritten- but it is too easy to just delete it without replacing it with something more subtle. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 00:23, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Better ways to cooperate

message: Although the Laxey Wheel is the largest working water wheel in existence, is it thought to be the largest ever (either non-working or demolished)? PhilUK (talk) 21:22, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Largest ever?

message: I started drafting a rewrite of the mathematical part and came to the conclusion that it couldn't be done adequately in isolation. I am preparing a reorganisation and partial rewrite of the page offline and I have started transferring that work to Draft:Water wheel
First bash at the introduction and the page structure are in place so comments welcome. (talk) 22:31, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Page rewrite

message: i know what a waterwheel is.  i do not know what a water wheel is.
the redirect Should be To 'waterwheel', From 'water wheel'.
thanks   2601:1C1:8B02:9D14:911E:7BEF:90FC:944A (talk) 18:34, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Both terms get many hits on Google Books, so I'd oppose renaming the article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 23:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  title edit needed; it should be one word 

message: Citation 67,  http://www.h3eindustries.com/How-does-an-Aqualienne%C2%AE-work? is not a working link, and seems like product placement. 71.86.140.226 (talk) 17:41, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stale Sources 

message: In the current article this is stated: "The overshot design is very efficient, it can achieve 90%,[17] and does not require rapid flow." I cannot find that number (90% efficiency) in the quoted source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pastej (talk • contribs) 01:05, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Efficiency of an Overshoot wheel 

message: I was under the impression that all waterwheels were a form of lever. What other forms of waterwheel are there? Bob Wikicont (talk) 07:55, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "waterwheel working like a lever"