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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 ...
Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia. ISBN 0-7385-0288-X. Lombardo, Donald (2003). Windmills of New England, Their Genius, Madness, History & Future. Cape Cod, MA: On Cape Publications. ISBN 0-9719547-7-1. Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is the Windmill World website.
Fairbanks, Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company in the late 19th and early 20th century. Founded in 1823 as a manufacturer of weighing scales, it later diversified into pumps, engines, windmills, coffee grinders, radios, farm tractors, feed mills, locomotives, and industrial supplies.
Pumping windmill, demolished 1939. [33] Heage: Heage Windmill: Tower: Built c. 1797. First use c. 1805 [34] Heage Windmill Official Website: Heanor: 1791 1808 Holbrook: Holbrook Mill: Post: 1825 1836 1880 1825 [35] Standing in 1841, not marked on any map later than 1880. [35] Hopton: Carsington Pasture Mill: Tower: 1839 1880 1780s [36] [37 ...
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill was built in 1787 for Joseph Lindsell. [4] Lindsell sold the mill in 1807 to Henry Chaplin, who mortgaged the mill to Robert Sworder in April 1808. Chaplin died in 1844 and the mill was offered for sale by auction on 22 December 1846 without a buyer being found. [5]
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.
West Kingsdown Windmill was built in the early nineteenth century at Chimham's Farm, Farningham. It was marked on the 1819–20 Ordnance Survey map, [3] Greenwoods map of 1821 and the Farningham Tithe Map of 1840. In 1880, it was moved to West Kingsdown, joining a post mill that was already there. The post mill burnt down in May 1909.