Union Mill and traditional Kent houses, Cranbrook, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Pitstone windmill and cornfield, with Ivinghoe Beacon in background, Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Saltfields of Mozia, San Pantaleo, Sizily, Italy

Windmill in Oldsum, Foehr island, North Frisian Islands, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Wind mill Fortuna in a cornfield near the village Unewatt, commune Langballig, county Schleswig-Flensburg, federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Baltic Sea, Germany, Europe

Windmill on Foehr island, North Frisian Islands, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Old waterwheels of a corn mill, Glentleiten farming museum, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Old waterwheels of a corn mill, Glentleiten farming museum, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Woman and child sitting under old wooden corn mill from 1926 on the Halligen island of Langeness, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

TheTourelles water wheel was constructed by royal decree in 1832 and still turns today. One of 14 in the busy market town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorge in the Luberon district of Provence, France, it once powered the town's factories for corn and cloth.