History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c32.s2.t9.39

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Though the water-wheel “may not have taken the form of modern wheel” but yet it must have had a definite form and shape which by the passage of time had got fully developed into the water- wheel of modern times. At this stage we are at a loss to reconstruct the actual model of the water-wheel used in the Pre- historic period; for the spade of the archaeologist has not exhumed other relevant material evidences than the pottery to throw light on the water-wheel and its essential parts.