The visitors will not come any more if they are welcomed by clouds of dust, a noria of trucks and an infernal noise. |
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On this basis, Joseph Needham suggested that the machine was a noria. |
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One of those technologies is the Noria, which is basically a wheel fitted with buckets on the peripherals for lifting water. |
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According to Thomas Glick's book, Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia, the Noria probably originated from somewhere in Persia. |
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