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Ripple Windmill is a Grade II listed [1] smock mill in Ringwould, Kent, England, that was built in Drellingore and moved to Ringwould in the early nineteenth century. Having been stripped of machinery and used as a television mast, it has been restored as a working windmill.
The use of windmills became widespread across the Middle East and Central Asia, and later spread to China and India. [22] Vertical windmills were later used extensively in Northwestern Europe to grind flour beginning in the 1180s, and many examples still exist. [23] By 500 AD, windmills were used to pump seawater for salt-making in China and ...
The "Iron Turbine" windmill is the sole known intact example of the first mass produced all-metal windmill remaining in the Southwest and probably the United States. Produced by Mast, Foos and Company of Springfield, Ohio, from 1876 to ca. 1898, the mill is highly significant as it relates to the technical evolution of turbine wheeltype water ...
The De Meyer Windmill was located north of "Katie Mut" and was granted on September 29, 1677, to Nicholas De Mayer, who had been elected mayor of New York the previous year. The land for the windmill was near the Collect or Fresh Water Pond, in an area that is now bounded by Baxter, White, Elm, Duane, and Park Streets and called Foley Square ...
Engines, windmills, drag saws, portable sawmills, water tanks, and feed grinders. The Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company was created by D.C. Stover in 1881. [ 1 ] An established inventor, he progressed through a profitable windmill business to, in 1895, the manufacture of kerosene and gasoline powered stationary engines for use on the ...
After manufacturing more than 2000 windmills, the company stopped production in the 1940s, and the Kregels worked instead in pump repair and well maintenance until 1991 in the same location. [4] The factory is a one-story wood-frame building. The flat-roofed building has two small roof monitors for light and ventilation.
Another sixty windmills are erected on the grounds with many pumping water. Complementing the water pumping windmills are wind electric machines. Some of these date to the early 1920s. Dominating the windmill grounds is a Vestas V47 wind turbine. This 660 kW turbine stands on a 50-meter tower and provides (on a yearly average) all of the power ...
Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-0288-X. Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1. Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website.