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Charles Brush's windmill of 1888, used for generating electricity. Wind power has been used as long as humans have put sails into the wind. Wind-powered machines used to grind grain and pump water — the windmill and wind pump — were developed in what is now Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan by the 9th century.
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.
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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.
By 1981, 80% of all windmills manufactured in The United States had their genesis in Conway. In 1998 Aermotor was purchased by Kees Verheul, as owner and president. It now operates from a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) facility in San Angelo, Texas. In 2006, the company was purchased by a group of West Texas ranchers, and the name restored to ...
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.
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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 ...