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Because of their prominence on the farms and ranches in the United States countryside, Dempster windmills may be the company's most recognized product. In 1885 Dempsters produced its first pumping windmill, the Original Dempster Solid Wheel Mill. [1] [13] This wooden wheel mill was produced in both 10 and 12 foot diameter models. In 1892 the ...
The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.
In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture. This is at least partly due to usage by windpump builders Eclipse Windmill Company (1873) and Aermotor Windmill Company (1888, the sole surviving US "windmill" manufacturer [ 1 ] ).
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 ...
His invention of the windmill was a crucial key to the old steam trains as back then, they were mainly powered by water, so the water pumping mechanism (the windmill) helped the advance of trains. Versions of this windmill became an iconic part of the rural landscape in the United States, [ 6 ] Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa ...
Dempster Land District, Western Australia; Dempster Highway, a Canadian roadway, in the Yukon and Northwest Territories; Dempster Street, a major east–west artery north of Chicago, Illinois, part of which is part of U.S. Route 14 Dempster (CTA Purple Line station), a Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit station in Evanston, Illinois
The phrase "provided that the windmill hath not taken in its sails" was a common expression, referring to the mill's sails as a supposedly infallible barometer indicating the approach of bad weather. Even at the time of the English takeover in 1664, the remains of the old mill were still standing.
John Dempster co-managed Scott, Dempster and Company, a gristmilling firm that operated a mill on First Creek. As a teenager, George Dempster travelled around the country working odd jobs for various companies, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, and the Ward Line shipping company