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  2. Panemone windmill - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded windmill design found was Persian in origin, and was invented sometime around 700–900 AD. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This design was the panemone, with vertical lightweight wooden sails attached by horizontal struts to a central vertical shaft.

  3. Post mill - Wikipedia

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    Brill windmill, a 17th-century post mill in Buckinghamshire. The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single central vertical post. The vertical post is supported by four quarter bars. These are struts that steady the central post.

  4. File:Claude Monet - The Windmill, Amsterdam, 1871.jpg

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    The painting shows the windmill "Het Land van Beloften" (also known as "De Eendracht", "De Binnen Tuchthuismolen" and "De Roosboom"). The mill was built in the late C17th and was demolished in 1876 and moved to Leusden, Utrecht. It stood on the banks of the Amstel near the Skinny Bridge (Magere Brug)/Amstelsluizen. References

  5. Outwood Windmill - Wikipedia

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    Outwood Windmill is a Grade I listed [1] post mill in Outwood, Surrey. Built in 1665 by Thomas Budgen, a miller from Nutfield in Surrey , it is Britain's oldest working windmill . [ 2 ] It was one of a pair after 1797, alongside a smock mill that had the tallest smock tower in the United Kingdom until its collapse in 1960.

  6. List of windmills - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Eclipse windmill - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of windmills in New York - Wikipedia

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    The windmill is a replica built by Architect A.W.B. Wood along with the house. The house structure incorporates a three-story windmill which is decorative only. It is the only windmill house in Montauk. [7] Bowerie Windmill(City Hall Park) [8] Nieuw Amsterdam

  9. Bocking Windmill - Wikipedia

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    Bocking Windmill is a post mill with a two-storey roundhouse. It has two common sails and two spring sails carried on a wooden windshaft. Two pairs of millstones are located in the breast. The mill is winded by a tailpole. The mill is 43 feet (13 m) high to the roof. [2]

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