Another game, Total run around

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OK, here’s on that’s sure to get your research juices flowing. Answer this one and I got a real treat in store for the winner. What is, or was, the duration of the longest continuous turning wheel on the face of the earth, as in; is it a clock part, a dam turbine or maybe an old waterwheel at a mill somewhere. Whatever it was/is, it is round and has been continuously turning for a long time. The contest ends when someone gets it.
If this don’t clutter up your though process for the rest of the day, nothing will.

Steve
 
Tiny Tim said:
Beethoven turning in his grave over today's rap music! :lol:

Nope, and it's not the run around you get from the phone company either.
 
amoskeag mills in Manchester New Hampshire water wheel powerd by water 1810 - 1936
 
or the earth and planets in orbit. from creation of the universe to the destruction still turning today
 
on the face of the earth, not the earth, and continuously tuning, as in never stopped, even for maintanance.
 
OMG I've seen this on the history channel, arg I can't remember what it was exactly.
 
bkelm18 said:
OMG I've seen this on the history channel, arg I can't remember what it was exactly.

That's a negative, it's never been on the History Channel
 
Well I've definitely seen something about the worlds oldest continuously running pump or something like that. Oh well.
 
the oceans that circile around the continents...it forms a circle...neverstopped for maitnantes and its been here befor us and will be here after us
 
Well, I learned this while looking...sorta.

_World Record_
Alfred Manthe (Germany):
largest collection of cigar bands (200,000)
 
would it be the tunneling machine used to tunnel through the andes?
 
tokinstogie said:
... What is, or was, the duration of the longest continuous turning wheel on the face of the earth,...
I'm going to guess 1,312 years, 7 months, 4 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes and 3 seconds.

I have no idea what it is, but it turned for that long. :roll:
 
I'm going to assume this is some kind of trick question and say the shadow of the moon, which is round, has been "turning" around the face of the earth for about 4.5 billion years.

Pulled this out of the air, because I got totally frustrated searching Google for an answer.

EDIT: Never mind, not man made. Missed that post
 
The Water Wheel Album: Page Five
... the largest water wheel in the world, being 90 feet in diameter and the oldest,
... These wheels are about 20 meters in diameter and still turn today, ...
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millbu ... lbum5.html - 11k -

The Noria, or Egyptian Wheel is thought to be the first vertical water wheel in history. It dates from the early Roman Empire, around 700-600 B.C., and was primarily used by the empire in Egypt, while other parts of the empire used the chain of pots or the water screw. The Egyptian wheel was a wooden wheel with buckets attached around the rim. It was set on a transverse axis in such a way as to submerge the lower portion of the wheel. Functioning in much the same way as the chain of pots, it was rotated to raise the water in the buckets to the level of the top of the wheel.
 

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Guys, were not looking for the oldest that still works, we're looking for the one that has turned the longest non stop, so I'll change the rules abit here to help out, the guy that can come up the longest documented turning wheel by end of day tomorrow (which, if someone does the research will come up with the right one anyhow)wins.