i just need to know who made the water wheel, the year they were born and the year they died, what year the first water wheel was made, and where the first water wheel was built.
I think it was either the Mesopotamians or Greco-Roman/Mediterraneans.
Honestly, that's some harder info to find The water wheel dates back to years of ancient Mesopotamia, in the BC years You'd have to do some more in depth research to find exactly what years, who built it, etc.
Since ancient times, waterwheels have been used as tools to power factories in many different counties. The alternatives were the windmill and human and animal power. The most common use of the water wheel was to mill flour in gristmills, but other uses included foundry work and machining, and pounding linen for use in the manufacture of paper. In ancient Mesopotamia, irrigation machines are referred to in Babylonian inscriptions, but without details on their construction, suggesting that water power had been harnessed for irrigation purposes. The primitive use of water-rotated wheels may date back to Sumerian times, with references to a Month for raising the Water Wheels, though it is not known whether these wheels were turned by the flow of a river.
