Historical Timeline - Alternative Energy - ProCon.org
2021-5-19 · 200 BC - Europeans Harness Water Energy to Power Mills 'The vertical waterwheel, invented perhaps two centuries before the time of Christ, spread across Europe within a few hundred years. By the end of the Roman era, waterwheels powered mills to crush grain, full cloth, tan leather, smelt and shape iron, saw wood, and carry out a variety of other early industrial processes.
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