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Dempsters was a privately held American company that over time produced submersible pumps, windmills and wind energy systems, water systems, recycling trailers, fertilizer equipment, and accessories. Originally named the Dempster Company and then the Dempster Wind Mill Company, it was incorporated under the laws of Nebraska in 1886 as Dempster ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Windmill Lane Mill I, Southampton (1713) - Shinnecock Hills Windmill (1890): Originally constructed in 1713, Windmill Lane Mill I was relocated to Shinnecock Hills in 1890, then moved to the current location where it was converted into a cottage by Textile magnate A.B.Clafin.
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
The printing press is most famous for its windmill-like automatic paper feed mechanism. There are two blades that rotate from the paper feed, where it picks up a sheet of paper; to the platen, where the printing impression is made; to the delivery rack, where the paper is released; followed by the blade pointing straight up ready to start the next cycle.
Cromer Windmill is a post mill with a single-storey roundhouse. The trestle, entirely made of oak, [8] is enclosed by the roundhouse. The main post is 22 inches (560 mm) square at its lower end, and 20 inches (510 mm) diameter at the crown tree.