A large, seven-person, foot-powered, dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車)

 A large, seven-person, foot-powered, dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車)

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ru-s099. A seven-person, foot-powered, double wooden chain pump, being used to raise water from a waterway or pond, to flood a paddy field of rice. Also known as a keel waterwheel, dragon’s backbone, dragon spine, water ladder pump, water lift pump (龍骨水車).

Estimated Date

1930s

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph