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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.
[1] [2] Wind power was widely available and not confined to the banks of fast-flowing streams, or later, requiring sources of fuel. Wind-powered pumps drained the polders of the Netherlands, and in arid regions such as the American midwest or the Australian outback, wind pumps provided water for livestock and steam engines.
The windmill allegedly inspired Longfellow's poem, "The Windmill." [ 2 ] About ten years after it was attached to the home, Longfellow sent Greene a copy of the poem and, in a letter dated April 18, 1880, speculated "I think this is the first ever poem on the subject."
"The wind shifts" explains why John Gould Fletcher detected a poet out of tune with life and with his surroundings. (See the main Harmonium essay.) Buttel cites this poem as an example of Stevens's mastery of repetition within free verse. The repetition of "the wind shifts" underscores the associated human feelings, and "heavy and heavy" adds ...
Ashby's Mill was built in 1816 and worked by wind until 1862, when the business was transferred to a watermill [4] at Mitcham [5] on the River Wandle. The sails were removed in 1864 and the windmill was relegated to use as a store. [4] In 1902, the lease on the watermill expired and a steam engine was installed in the windmill. [5]
Southold was a center of windmill building activity by the golden Age of smock mills, 1795-1820. A smock windmill still stands, the Sylvesters (1810) of Shelter Island. The Peconic windmill (1840) was neglected after the 1898 storm and razed in 1906. A replica windmill was restored in Aquebogue that is a copy of the 1804 "Pantigo" smock mill. [22]
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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.