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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.
18th-century allegorical print commemorating C.C. van Uitgeest's invention of the saw mill. Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest or Krelis Lootjes (c. 1550 – c. 1600) was a Dutch windmill owner from Uitgeest who invented the wind-powered sawmill, which made the conversion of log timber into planks 30 times faster than before.
The first wind turbine. William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987, in Kasungu, Malawi), is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in his country in 2001 when he built a wind turbine to power multiple electrical appliances in his family's house in Wimbe, 23 kilometres (14 mi) east of Kasungu, using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard.
The Windmill (or briefly Mill) is a popular breakdancing move. The breaker rolls their torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest/shoulders/back, while twirling their legs in a V-shape through the air.
“I’m not a windmill person,” Trump told the court. “They’ll probably come down, like all wind farms come down,” Trump says. “They’re not on the property, they’re miles out …
Per its listing, The Windmill House's interior seems to have a history just as rich as the interior design itself: "Sydney Burleigh, a renowned American artist, Little Compton native, and close ...
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 winds are blowing fair for America's wind power industry, making it one of the fastest-growing U.S. energy sources. "We have been blessed to have it," says Polly McMahon, a 13th-generation ...