THE YEAR IS 1710.
You own a coal mine.
Your mine is becoming more profitable—but there is a problem:
Water keeps flooding the mine.
How could you get the water out?
Possible answers:
BucketsPumps
People
Horses
Digging drainage tunnels
Some kind of machine
In this picture my dad is 2 years old, sitting on my grandfather's lap. His grandfather Lawrence is kneeling next to them, and his great-grandfather (my great-great-grandfather) William sits behind. William left the Isle of Man to come to America in 1890. William's father, John Robert (my great-great-grandfather) was a miner and worked in this lead/silver mine in a town called Laxey. The mine became famous for this giant wheel used to pump water from the deep shafts.
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