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• Water wheel — This article is about the machine for converting energy of flowing or falling water. For paddle wheels used to propel watercraft, see paddle wheel ship. For wheels used solely to lift water, see Noria. For factories or industries driven by water… …   Wikipedia

• Water scoop (hydropower) — A water scoop is a simple hydropower machine, i.e. a machine used to extract power from the flow of water. Unlike a water wheel it operates intermittent, like a seesaw: A container (bucket/cup) at the end of a lever is filled with water in the… …   Wikipedia

• scoop — [14] Scoop appears to go back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base *skap which originally denoted ‘chop or dig out’ (it was later extended metaphorically to ‘form’, and in that sense has given English shape). It had a variant form *skōp ,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• scoop — [14] Scoop appears to go back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base *skap which originally denoted ‘chop or dig out’ (it was later extended metaphorically to ‘form’, and in that sense has given English shape). It had a variant form *skōp ,… …   Word origins

• Scoop wheel — Scoop Scoop, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch[ u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See {Shovel}.] 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Scoop — Scoop, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch[ u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See {Shovel}.] 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Scoop net — Scoop Scoop, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch[ u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See {Shovel}.] 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Steering wheel — This article is about steering wheels in cars. For the use in vessels, see Steering wheel (ship). A modern road car s steering wheel (Alfa Romeo Giulietta (2010)) …   Wikipedia

• salmon wheel — noun : a device for catching salmon in large quantities consisting of a large revolving wheel suspended in the water and turned by the current to which are attached scoop nets that catch the fish passing beneath * * * a trap for catching salmon,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Inventions in medieval Islam — A significant number of inventions were developed in the medieval Islamic world, a geopolitical region that has at various times extended from Al Andalus and Africa in the west to the Indian subcontinent and Malay Archipelago in the east.… …   Wikipedia

• Su Song — 蘇頌 (Sū Sòng) Born 1020 near Quanzhou Died 1101 (aged 80–81) Nationality Chinese …   Wikipedia