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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 windmill was built in the period from 1876 to 1885. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1] According to its National Register nomination, 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.
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.
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.
The first windmill in Ardeley parish was built at some time between 1192 and 1222, in which year its existence is first documented. A windmill was stated to be "in ruins" in 1374 and another is mentioned in 1576, when it was sold to William Crane, and it is believed to have remained in his family for some 200 years.
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 ...
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.
The Pointe-Claire Windmill (French: Moulin à vent de Pointe-Claire) is a windmill in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest windmill on the island of Montreal and one of 18 remaining windmills in Quebec .