Bucket dredger (mud mill)
Draga de cangilones (molino de lodo)
- Date
- 1589 · confidence medium
- Place
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Credited to
- City of Amsterdam; patent of Cornelis Dircksz Muys (1575) and others
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A barge with an endless chain of buckets, driven by a treadmill or horses, which dredged mud from ports and canals. It kept silted-up Dutch harbours navigable.
What it led to
- Maintaining Amsterdam as a major European port
- Port and waterway engineering
- 19th-century steam dredgers
Built on
- Wind-powered sawmill1594
- Chain of buckets (noria)
- Treadle (pedal) wheel
Made possible
- Steam dredger
- Suction dredger