Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest or Krelis Lootjes 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
18th-century allegorical print commemorating C.C. van Uitgeest's invention of the saw mill.
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The Zaan is a small river in the province of North Holland in the northwestern Netherlands and the name of a district through which it runs. The river was originally a side arm of the IJ bay and trave
Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest
…the Dutch Republic during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century by enabling the mass construction of ships for overseas trade. The mill turned the Zaan district, north of Amsterdam, into the world's first industrial area. It is not known when exactly he died; it was sometime between 1600 and 1607…
Den Uylbridge in Zaandam, the Netherlands.
The Zaan at Zaanse Schans