Water wheels. It enables hydralic powers be harnessed in silk spinning mill, irrigations, blast furnace, rice grinding mills etc. It increases productivities across industries.
One of the greatest inventions of the medieval world was the mechanical clock. The difficulty in inventing a mechanical clock was to figure out a way in which a wheel no bigger than a room could turn at the same speed as the Earth, but still be turning more or less continuously. If this could be accomplished, then the wheel became a mini Earth and could tell the time.
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