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The mill & the stone in fire & flood

Eleanor Konik
Dec 07, 2020
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As part of working on a fantasy novel set in the Bronze Age, some of the research I do is to confirm when certain pieces of technology originated. In my most recent chapter, I thought it might be fun if my protagonist used a waterwheel to help put out a fire. But first, I had to figure out whether that was plausible...

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