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The Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse Windmill is a historic windpump that was located near Sheffield, Texas. The windmill was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It was one of only four known to exist and was the last one still situated above its original well.
Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse Windmill. The Eclipse windmill was one of the more successful designs of windmill used to pump water in the nineteenth century United States. It was invented by Leonard Wheeler, a Presbyterian minister who was working among the Ojibwe on the south shore of Lake Superior. Wheeler perfected the device on his ...
Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse Windmill Sheffield 30°44′44″N 101°58′30″W / 30.74556°N 101.97500°W / 30.74556; -101.97500 ( Canon Ranch Railroad Eclipse
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Location Name of mill and grid reference Type Maps First mention or built Last mention or demise Photograph Aspley Guise: Post: Demolished c. 1900 Barton-in-the-Clay
Smock mill with fantail (Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark) Smock mill in Amsterdam Cobstone Windmill, Ibstone, Buckinghamshire. 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 ...
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Regardless of the technique employed it is important to strike railroad spikes with the handle of the maul as close to horizontal as possible. This requires the user to bend over at the waist with every swing. If the user attempts to drive spikes while standing erect the spike will often bend and the maul head will begin to sit crooked on the ...