Mike Gill wrote:
>I've just one problem with your recent note, and that is the prefixing of
>"mining wheels" with "Cornish". All too often, Cornish gets put in front of
>the common-place to imply yet another technological advance from the land to
>the west of the Tamar. What you describe was a general feature of larger
>waterwheels, around the world.
Thank you for the correction Mike. What I had assumed to have been an authorative answer (from a 'so called' expert), may also of course have been from a Cornish man?
>What is intriguing about your question, is why did the Cornish bother to
>shape the wheelcase to the wheel, instead of simply using a rectangular
>shape like everyone else.
Now that's odd. That's just the question I asked. The response was complicated to say the least and way over my head. Back in my home county of Derbyshire we call a spade a spade. Down ere in Devon thems like to blind yer wi sience!
regards,
Trevor
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