The Chinese made water wheel modern washing machine

 

Many will remember the image of a rotating water wheel in Chinese painting. Sitting on the shore some Chinese Alyonushka next to the spinning water wheel and waiting Ivan. Designers and engineers from Southwest Jiaotong University seems to have decided the landscape back into our modern reality. They made waterwheel, a modern washing machine with zero power consumption.


Not once used the water wheel in China and Ancient Egypt! For grinding and sifting grain, irrigation and much more. But over time, with the invention of electricity and other innovations, this technology began to forget. Need to use alternative energy for some time disappeared, especially in the major cities and settlements. Why take extra steps if one click you can start, for example, a washing machine? Why cook on a fire, not on gas or electric stove? It's so much easier. Designers interested in the creation of new environmental technologies and a return to the traditions of the past, have a hard time. To adapt what was used many centuries ago to our reality, so much so that the invention has become competitive is really difficult.


But I think Chinese designers and Tao Huang (Tao Huang), Jeong-Tshe (Zhong Ce), Jinju, Ronghao (Jin Rongha) and Django Uisine from Southwest Jiaotong University have succeeded. They transformed the water wheel – the invention that was used several thousand years ago in Ancient Egypt and China in modern eco-friendly washing machine. It looks like this: this is the water wheel, the interior of which is divided into 3 compartments for washing clothes. In the case of using new creations of Chinese designers in the settlements of China, it is expected that one family would occupy one compartment. The lateral axis of the wheel is divided into small compartments, inside which will be poured water. This will allow the water wheel to move without the use of electricity or repetitive actions of man. It will be enough, as say the authors of the project, the current of the river, where there will be a wheel.


About how fast this washing machine will get things in order, is unknown – after all, it's not a modern washing machine, which is able to overcome things in 15 minutes, and wash – in less than an hour. And to spin the invention of Chinese designers will be much slower. But it's still better than to wash by hand. The more that energy costs can thus seriously cutting back in small settlements far from civilization, it can be especially important. But not only there, of course – such a washing machine can be used in any place where there is a pond. The technology, invented by the Chinese, is interesting not only for possible application but also a very original combination of ancient traditions, sustainability and at the same time interesting design solutions. Photo: Katsushika Hokusai. The watermill in Ondine. 1823-31, Southwest Jiaotong University source: think-blue.ru

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