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2. Tower mill - Wikipedia

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   Windmills in general had been known to civilization for centuries, but the tower mill represented an improvement on traditional western-style windmills. The tower mill was an important source of power for Europe for nearly 600 years from 1300 to 1900, contributing to 25 percent of the industrial power of all wind machines before the advent of ...

3. Post mill - Wikipedia

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   The body of the windmill can be turned around the central post to bring the sails into the wind. All post mills have an arm projecting from them on the side opposite the sails and reaching down to near ground level. With some, as at Saxtead Green, the arm carries a fantail to turn the mill automatically. With the others the arm serves to rotate ...

4. List of windmills - Wikipedia

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   See List of windmills in the Netherlands; Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.

5. Clayton Windmills - Wikipedia

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   The Clayton Windmills, known locally as Jack and Jill, stand on the South Downs above the village of Clayton, West Sussex, England. They comprise a post mill and a tower mill , and the roundhouse of a former post mill.

6. Eclipse windmill - Wikipedia

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   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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