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The Saqiyah, c. 1905 'Punjab Wheel', India c.1917. A sāqiyah or saqiya (Arabic: ساقية), also spelled sakia or saqia) is a mechanical water lifting device.It is also called a Persian wheel, tablia, rehat, and in Latin tympanum. [1]
The four wheels move with the Cherubim because the spirit of the Cherubim is in them. The late Second Book of Enoch (20:1, 21:1) also referred to them as the " many-eyed ones ". The First Book of Enoch (71.7) seems to imply that the Ophanim are equated to the " Thrones " in Christianity when it lists them all together, in order: "...round about ...
The name hexafoil is sometimes also used to refer to a different geometric design that is used as a traditional element of Gothic architecture, [21] created by overlapping six circular arcs to form a flower-like image. [22] [23] The hexafoil design is modeled after the six petal lily, for its symbolism of purity and relation to the Trinity. [24]
A Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [ 1 ] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...
The Laxey Wheel (also known as Lady Isabella) is built into the hillside above the village of Laxey in the Isle of Man. It is the largest surviving original working waterwheel in the world. [ 1 ] Designed by Robert Casement, the wheel has a 72-foot-6-inch (22.1 m) diameter, is 6 feet (1.8 m) wide and revolves approximately three times per minute.
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The futures wheel is a method for graphical visualisation of direct and indirect future consequences of a particular change or development. It was invented by Jerome C. Glenn in 1971, when he was a student at the Antioch Graduate School of Education (now Antioch University New England ).
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