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Folded Paper Waterwheels
 
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1888

Issue 804 of 27th October 1888 contained an article headed 'Sur La Densite des Gaz' which pictured an apparatus made by attaching cardboard cones to a rotating disc. Note that in this original article the the apparatus is not intended to be driven by water but by carbonic acid and hydrogen.

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1899

The same apparatus, reinterpreted as a waterwheel, appears in the 2nd Volume of 'Kolumbus-Eier', which was published in Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig probably c1899. The cones are made from thick folded cardboard.

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