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The Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse Windmill is a historic windpump that was located near Sheffield, Texas. The windmill was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It was one of only four known to exist and was the last one still situated above its original well.
An Aermotor water-pumping windmill in Texas near Denton The defunct Aermotor Windmill at Gekeler Farms in Idaho. Besides the production of windmills from 6 to 16 feet (1.8 to 4.9 m) tall, [3] Aermotor also produces the towers on which a windmill sits. Four post towers come in steel (ranging from 21 to 60 feet or 6.4 to 18.3 meters tall) and ...
The mill museum opened its doors in 1980 following two years of extensive field engineering by the Aller-Ohre-Verband.With the aid of bulldozers and flushing dredgers, the terrain was landscaped and numerous ditches and ponds created, as well as a 5 hectare mill lake.
The windmill was built in 1870 and is probably the last remaining windmill of European design in the Southwestern United States. Standing 35 feet high and supporting four 15-foot blades, the Dutch turret-mill style windmill was constructed by German immigrant Fred Meiss, Jr. and Otto Fiek near Spring Creek. The turret-style allowed the top to ...
Eclipse windmills at the time were one of the top two brands in the United States and were also manufactured extensively in Germany. [16] When the patent rights expired in 1901, many competing windmill companies copied the design. [17] After World War I, the Fairbanks Morse company no longer manufactured the classic wood-fin Eclipse.
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Texas was used as a starring vehicle for Daytime Emmy-nominated Beverlee McKinsey, whose Another World character of Iris Carrington, penned in 1972 by Harding Lemay on the mother show as the rich, spoiled daughter of publishing magnate Mackenzie Cory, was made the focal point of the series. The series was retooled from its initial conception to ...