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  2. Aermotor Windmill Company - Wikipedia

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    An Aermotor water-pumping windmill in Texas near Denton The defunct Aermotor Windmill at Gekeler Farms in Idaho. Besides the production of windmills from 6 to 16 feet (1.8 to 4.9 m) tall, [3] Aermotor also produces the towers on which a windmill sits. Four post towers come in steel (ranging from 21 to 60 feet or 6.4 to 18.3 meters tall) and ...

  3. Wind turbine - Wikipedia

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    Around the time of World War I, American windmill makers were producing 100,000 farm windmills each year, mostly for water-pumping. [15] By the 1930s, use of wind turbines in rural areas was declining as the distribution system extended to those areas. [16] A forerunner of modern horizontal-axis wind generators was in service at Yalta, USSR, in ...

  4. Windmill - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of windmills in Derbyshire - Wikipedia

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    Tower: 1764 [23] Burnt out 15 February 1849. [23] Dale Abbey: Cat and Fiddle Mill: Midlands Post: 1788 [24] Windmill World: Derby: Windmill Hill Lane Mill: Tower: 1791 1767 [25] Advertised for sale in 1781. [25] Derby Depot Mill: Tower: 1816 [26] Probably demolished between 1855 and 1888. [27] Derby Normanton Road Mill Tower: Standing in 1949 ...

  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. List of wind turbine manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Acciona (Spain) merged with Nordex; Northern Power Systems (USA); DeWind (Germany/USA) – subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (South Korea); Alstom Wind (Spain) – subsidiary of General Electric since 2015

  8. Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill - Wikipedia

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    Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill is a five-storey tower mill with a domed cap winded by an eight bladed fantail. [4] The tower is 21 feet 6 inches (6.55 m) diameter at base, and 10 feet (3.05 m) diameter at curb level. The brickwork is only 27 inches (690 mm) thick at ground level, and generally only about 18 inches (460 mm) at higher levels.

  9. Alford Windmill - Wikipedia

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    Alford Windmill is a seven-storeyed Lincolnshire type tower windmill with a stage – featuring a slender, tapering brick tower, tarred to keep the moisture out, covered with a white onion-shaped (ogee) cap with fan-stage, huge fantail, and white sails.

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