Hey mon, this should tickle your engineering fancy.
No, that's not a typo in the subject line. It's Dutch, specifically from the description, "Achtkanten Staand-Scheprad Watermolen" which means "octagonal single-wheel watermill".
This collection of 21 building plans for 5 different types of Dutch industrial windmills was published in 1850. There is a saw mill, an oats mill, a flour mill, and two pumping mills. The book contains no text, only illustrations.
http://archive.org/details/TheoretischEnPractischMolenboek
As a long-time aficiando of all kinds of mills, I love this stuff. Throughout human history, the mill has been the source and focus of industrial development, and in pre-steam daze with transportation limited to animal cartage communities sprouted and flourished [pun intended] around millsites.
I have a tattered decades-old photocopy of a table from the Final Report of the NJ State Geologist, Volume III, Water-supply, water-power, flow of streams and attendant phenomena (1894). It lists every millsite in the state (surveyed in 1890-91) along with its fall and horsepower. I keep it in my car and consult it whenever I encounter a structure that seems to be a mill and/or a location that looks like a place where a mill should have been. One of the interesting elements is that development has lowered the water table considerably and it's often hard to imagine that there would have been sufficient flow to operate a mill at any time other than early spring. In general the millponds and races are long gone, but property maps often still show easements and rights of way for a mill's watercourse.
The tome is now available online here:
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/SG-FINAL-REPORT-VOL-III.PDF
The Water Powers report is Appendix I beginning at page 353.
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