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Treadmill facts for kids

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High Atlas-The olive grinding mill (js)
A horse grinds olives in a treadmill in the Atlas Mountains
Molino para mezcal
Donkey-powered grinding mill, in Oxaca, Mexico
RIAN archive 555848 Testing on treadmill
Sportspeople are being tested on a treadmill

A treadmill is a device for walking or running, while staying in the same place. Before there was steam power, such treadmills were used to power machines. That way, the work of animals or people could be used in the machines. Such treadmills were also used as a form of punishment in prisons.

Images for kids

  • En Trædemoelle

    Human-powered treadmill for grinding grain

  • Treadmill

    Treadmill used to punish prisoners at Breakwater Prison, Cape Town

  • T.J. Creamer ISS022-E-020918 (8 Jan. 2010)

    NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Expedition 22 flight engineer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) in the Harmony node of the International Space Station.

  • Steers on a treadmill from Effect of exercise on quality of beef 1942

    Steers on a treadmill

  • Carisbrooke Castle well house 3

    Donkey powered well hoist

  • Exercise Treadmill Convey Motion

    Example of modern treadmill

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Cinta de correr para niños

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