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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 ...
The use of windmills became widespread across the Middle East and Central Asia, and later spread to China and India. [22] Vertical windmills were later used extensively in Northwestern Europe to grind flour beginning in the 1180s, and many examples still exist. [23] By 500 AD, windmills were used to pump seawater for salt-making in China and ...
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 ...
Beacon Mill, was built in 1802.There are records of an earlier mill on the site, thought to have been a post mill. [2] During the digging of the foundations, a human skeleton was found [3] of an 'ancient warrior with a sword' but the remains were stolen while the labourers had lunch and have never been recovered. [4]
The brand of windmills that the Kregel Windmill Company produced was called "ELI" — as an homage to one of George Kregel's friends, a deceased preacher named Eli Huber. Kregel windmills were used to pump water from wells at farms and homes in the region of southeastern Nebraska surrounding Nebraska City.
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.
The history of the mill museum is closely linked to its founder and owner, Horst Wrobel. In 1965 he discovered an old post mill that was still working, on the Elm ridge at Abbenrode during an outing. Horst Wrobel made a replica of the mill at a scale of 1:25 and then collected all kinds of material about windmills and watermills.