treadwheel

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a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps

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These devices included carrying cannon ball to and fro, the treadwheel, (18) and the crank." (19) Obviously, these served no productive end, but filled the need for "hard and servile labor." (20) Ultimately, England's Prisons Act of 1898 abolished the treadwheel and the crank from the prisons.
(18) The treadwheel, as invented by the engineer, Sir William Cubbit, consisted of twenty-four steps, fixed lengthwise, like the floats of a paddlewheel, to a wooden cylinder sixteen feet in circumference, the steps being eight inches apart.
Making little rocks out of big rocks: implementing sentences to hard labor without confinement: breakin' rocks in the hot sun; I fought the law and the law won
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