Windmill
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A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone wind
Windmill in Sønderho, Fanø, Denmark. Dutch type, built in 1895.
Hooper's Mill, Margate, Kent, an eighteenth-century European horizontal windmill
A windmill in Kotka, Finland in May 1987
Windmill in the Azores islands, Portugal
Post mill
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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 po
Windmill
…illustration by Gustave Doré) Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, Windmill Fire (17th century), National Museum in Kraków Oilmill De Zoeker, paintmill De Kat and paltrok sawmill De Gekroonde Poelenburg at the Zaanse Schans In the 14th century, windmills became popular in Europe; the total number of wind-powered mills…
Brill windmill, a 17th-century post mill in Buckinghamshire
Chillenden post mill, built in 1868.
Chillenden open trestle post mill (another view).
Friston Post Mill, near Friston, Suffolk.