current mill

A mill driven by a current wheel, and usually on board a moored ve el with steam-driven paddles. The first notice of current mills is the account of the recourse had to them by Belisarius, A. D. 536, when the Romans were besieged by Vitiges the Ostragoth, who had cut the fourteen aqueducts which brought water to the imperial city. The surplus water of the aqueducts drove the grain-mills of the city, and the recourse had by Belisarius to moored twin-ve els provided with paddles, and the mills, enabled the people to eat bread instead of parched wheat and frumenty. current-regulator, s. Telegraphy: A device for determining the intensity of the current allowed to pa a given point. It usually consists of interposed coils of greater or le resistance.