1922
Motor-driven prayers have become popular with the Buddhist priests of Simla, the summer capital of India. Formerly the limit of invention allowed lazy priests to tack pieces of paper, on which were written the perpetual prayers, onto great prayer wheels. The power for turning these wheels was supplied from the many small mountain streams about the capital. When a firm of British engineers came with a proposal to divert these little streams and merge them into a waterpower project, the priests incited the people against them until finally an item was included in the franchise stating that electric motors and power were to be supplied to perpetually turn the prayer wheels. — Popular Mechanics Magazine.
—The Pointer, Riverdale/Dolton, Illinois, July 21, 1922, page 3.
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