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2. The Lily, Stirling Range - Wikipedia

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   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

3. 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.

4. List of windmills in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A wind turbine in Texas A wind engine applied unusually, to power a plow, in Texas This list aims to include only traditional-type windmills, with the exception that it also includes NRHP-listed historic windpumps known as windmills, such as the "Iron Turbine Windmill" in Arizona.

5. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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   Early balloon structures were very basic, to enable home buyers to assemble them independently and also because designers had yet to see the implications the method held. [9] Shipped by railroad boxcar, and then usually trucked to a home site, the average Sears Modern Home kit had about 25 tons of materials, with more than 30,000 parts. [10]

6. 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 ...

7. Tankhouse - Wikipedia

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   Tankhouse, Sonoma County, California A tankhouse (also spelled tank house or tank-house) is a water tower enclosed by siding.Tankhouses were part of a self-contained domestic water system supplying the house and garden, developed before the advent of electricity and municipal water mains.