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The front elevation displays a small stone balcony over the entrance and an apparent avant-corps framed by two pairs of pilasters, topped with a triangular pediment. The Mansard roof, covered with slate tiles, is crowned with an eagle sculpture. The interiors house fragments of stucco decorations and an openwork balustrade in the hall. [6]
The house was designed by Marshall & Fox, a leading Chicago architectural firm, and was built in 1912-14 for Ira M. Cobe, a Chicago lawyer and investment banker. Cobe's wife Anne was from Belfast, Maine , and the house was built in Northport so that she could be nearer her family in the summertime.
In Denmark there were about 2,500 windmills by 1900, used for mechanical loads such as pumps and mills, producing an estimated combined peak power of about 30 MW. In the American midwest between 1850 and 1900, a large number of small windmills, perhaps six million, were installed on farms to operate irrigation pumps. [36]
Wind turbine design is the process of defining the form and configuration of a wind turbine to extract energy from the wind. [1] An installation consists of the systems needed to capture the wind's energy, point the turbine into the wind, convert mechanical rotation into electrical power , and other systems to start, stop, and control the turbine.
An older meaning of "clapboard" is small split pieces of oak imported from Germany for use as barrel staves, and the name is a partial translation (from klappen, "to fit") of Middle Dutch klapholt and related to German Klappholz. [1]
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Taliesin (/ ˌ t æ l iː ˈ ɛ s ɪ n / tal-ee-ess-in; [4] sometimes known as Taliesin East, [5] [6] Taliesin Spring Green, or Taliesin North after 1937) is a house-studio complex located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the village of Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States.
The Lily is a 16th-century Dutch design windmill of brick construction with 24.6-metre (81 ft) diameter sails. [6] It was built by Dutch born Pleun Hitzert between 1991 and 1997. [7] [8] The Lily is a flour mill equipped with one set of millstones. It is the only working windmill of traditional