Animal engine

Ox powered treadwheel

An animal engine is a machine powered by an animal. Horses, donkeys, oxen, dogs, and humans have all been used in this way.

See also

• Experiment (horse powered boat)
• Gin gang
• Horse mill
• Horse engine
• Persian well
• Treadwheel
• Turnspit dog

Books

• Animal Powered Machines, J. Kenneth Major. Shire Album 128 - Shire Publications 1985. ISBN 0-85263-710-1
• Water-mills windmills and horse-mills of South Africa, James Walton. C Struik Publishers, 1974. ISBN 0-86977-040-3