The Old Mill Pond
Water Wheel, 1843, Den Gamle By (Old Town), Aarhus, Denmark
A working water wheel, built in 1843 at Den Gamle By (Old Town) in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Water Wheel
Water Wheel, 1843, Den Gamle By (Old Town), Aarhus, Denmark
A working water wheel, built in 1843 at Den Gamle By (Old Town) in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Inner walls at Edfu Temple, Egypt
The Temple of Edfu, located on the west bank of the Nile, is dedicated to the falcon god Horus. The sandstone temple complex was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BC. It is the second largest temple after Karnak and is the most completely preserved ancient temple in Egypt. Prior to excavations which began in the 1860s, the temple was buried under almost 40 ft of desert sand and Nile river silt. The chisel marks on the relief figures were done during the period the temple was used as a christian church.
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Intake Towers, Hoover Dam, Arizona side of Lake Mead
Two of four reinforced-concrete intake towers located above the Hoover Dam. There are two towers on each side of the canyon. The towers are 82 feet in diameter at the base, 63 feet 3 inches in diameter at the top, and 29 feet 8 inches in diameter inside. Each tower is 395 feet high and each controls one-fourth the supply of water flowing from Lake Mead for the power plant turbines. Built between 1931-1936, the dam was considered both an engineering and an artistic achievement. The dam generates an average of 4.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, serving the needs of nearly 8 million people in Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada.
At the moment, water is Lake Mead behind the dam is very low. The depth can reach as high as the open spaces in the top of the intake towers.
(Picture courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation/US Department of Interior)
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