It's speed regulation that's the problem with taking an alternator drive
from a mill wheel. Kipling's, I'll bet, had a feeder pipe from further
up the river and providing decent head to turn his turban.

Blimey!, So most every one in India then could become a power station !!!...


Must be a bit wearing on the neck muscles;!..

I stayed at
an estate in the Borders that had the first home electrics in the area -
circa 1900 or so. The old pipery was still there and turban house down
the bottom, but the high end of the intake pipe was several hundred
yards up the hill, having its own mini reservoir. There was a mill too,
but that had been ignored - quite possibly because it was in use at the
time and needed.

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Tony Sayer