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Titel: Nora bergsförsamling EI:2 (1751-1774) - Translation
Skrivet av: Elisabeth Thorsell skrivet 2013-07-27, 09:17
John, the name of the father is Abraham, and then his profession is given as konstvakten.
In those days they had a complicated system of pumping the water out of the mines, which was called the konst, and Abraham was the overseer of this.
It functioned roughly like this: in some stream or river they had a big water wheel, and from that they attached logs, that were connected to other logs over a distance, until they reached the mine. There the transmitted power was turned down in the mine to work the pumps, which were supposedly working day and night.
For its day it worked fairly well.
Maybe the enclosed picture will make it more clear.