Animal engine
Ox powered treadwheel
An animal engine is a machine powered by an animal. Horses, donkeys, oxen, dogs, and humans have all been used in this way.
See also
- Experiment (horse powered boat)
- Gin gang
- Horse mill
- Horse engine
- Persian well
- Treadwheel
- Turnspit dog
Books
- Animal Powered Machines, J. Kenneth Major. Shire Album 128 - Shire Publications 1985. ISBN 0-85263-710-1
- Water-mills windmills and horse-mills of South Africa, James Walton. C Struik Publishers, 1974. ISBN 0-86977-040-3
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