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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering | | Spanish term or phrase: Noria de sangre | Hello,
I'm having trouble finding a suitable translation for the above term, which is found in a document about the construction of aqueducts.
Here is the sentence for some context,
Constuyéndose en el siglo XIV, el albercón de las Damas, alimentado por un complejo sistema de canales, pozos y una noria de sange...
It was constructed by el Albercón de las Damas in the XIV century, and equipped with a complex system of channels, wells and a water wheel (noria de sangre)..
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| | animal-driven waterwheels/ watermills | Explanation:
Animal driven waterwheels are known in Murcia as norias de sangre.http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/11/spanish-water-works/; cience and civilisation in China: Biology and biological ... - Resultado de la Búsqueda de libros de Google
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Joseph Needham, Christian Daniels, Nicholas K. Menzies - 1996 - History - 770 páginas
Chinese operators effected further economies in capital by using portable animal-driven roller mills that could service a number of cane fields. ...
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