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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.
In a windmill, a Crown Wheel is an auxiliary gear on the Upright Shaft. Fantail A fantail is a small windmill which is used to keep a windmill facing into the wind automatically. Great Spur Wheel The Great Spur Wheel is carried on the Upright Shaft. It drives the Stone Nuts. Millstones driven by the Great Spur Wheel can be either Overdrift or ...
Windmill, a village near Pentre Halkyn, Wales, United Kingdom; Windmill Islands, an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks; The Windmill, Brixton, a pub in London known for its live music; The Windmill (restaurant), a hotdog restaurant in New Jersey, US; The Farmer's Dog, a pub restaurant in Oxfordshire formerly known as The Windmill
It was a Halladay windmill for driving a dynamo. Friedländer's 6.6 m (22 ft) diameter Halladay "wind motor" was supplied by U.S. Wind Engine & Pump Co. of Batavia, Illinois. The 3.7 kW (5 hp) windmill drove a dynamo at ground level that fed electricity into a series of batteries. The batteries powered various electrical tools and lamps, as ...
Kinderdijk. Kinderdijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌkɪndərˈdɛik]) is a town in the municipality of Molenlanden, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.It is located about 15 km (9 miles) east of Rotterdam.
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.
The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This type of windmill got its name from its resemblance to smocks worn by farmers in an earlier period. [1]
A panemone windmill is a type of vertical-axis wind turbine. It has a rotating axis positioned vertically, while the wind-catching blades move parallel to the wind. It has a rotating axis positioned vertically, while the wind-catching blades move parallel to the wind.