Postcard of the pipe track in Kinlochleven, Scotland. The pipe track was created to create power for aluminum manufacturing by the British Aluminium Company. The author, Kenneth H. Bailey wishes George Cyril Bailey…

Postcard of the pipe track in Kinlochleven, Scotland sent to George Cyril Bailey (1890-1972). The pipe track was created to create power for aluminum manufacturing by the British Aluminium Company. The author writes…

Entitled "A Striking Feature of Modern Aluminum Works," photographic reproduction depicts water pipelines traversing a hillside in Kinlochleven in Argyllshire, Scotland. Accompanying text states how water power is used…

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; lantern and crown gear; Three-lobed disc cam; bell crank.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear; horizontal working beam; bell crank.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; lantern and crown gear; grooved eccentric cam; bell crank.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; cylinder cam with single lobe; roller guides.

The parallel reciprocating bars used in this device are also known as stangenkunst.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; machine crank; bell crank; parallelogram linkage; parallel reciprocating bars.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; machine crank; bell crank; roller guides.

Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; horizontal waterwheel; machine crank; spur gear and lantern; worm and worm gear; lantern and crown gear.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; chain equalizer; roller guides.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; interrupted lantern and racks; chain equalizer; roller guides.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; worm and worm gear.

Mechanics: horizontal submerged waterwheel; oscillating wing pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; double worm and reversing racks; roller guides.

The building housing the device is ornately decorated with male and female caryatids, vegetal motifs, scrollwork, fish, hybrid water creatures; the door is surmounted by a heraldic coat of arms.

Mechanics: horizontal…

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; force pump; conical valve; double interrupted crown gears and lantern gear; spur gear and lantern; motion converter (rotating to linear).

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lift pump; lantern and crown gear; Cylinder cam with multiple lobes.

Millstone can be raised and lowered by counterweights.

Mechanics: horse whim; spur gear and lantern.

Millstone can be raised or lowered by a wedge. This mill grinds and sifts flour at same time.

Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; lantern and crown gear.

Millstone can be raised and lowered by a lever.

Mechanics: undershot waterwheel; lantern and crown gear.

The water is then pumped back to the source.

Mechanics: overshot waterwheel; horizontal crankshaft; force pump; lantern and crown gear; crank and connecting rod.

Millstone can be raised and lowered by screws to accommodate change in river levels. Boards attached to beam S, which can be raised or lowered, modulate the river's force through the mill.

Mechanics: undershot…

Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel; spur gear and lantern.

Mechanics: horizontal waterwheel.