Windmill fantail
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A fantail is a small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, and which turns the cap automatically to bring it into the wind. The fantail was patented in 1745 by Ed
Danish Smock mill from 1895 at Sønderho, Fanø, with fantail
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 fantail
…the cap of the windmill via a system of gearing to a toothed rack around the top of the mill tower, or to wheels running on the ground in the case of a post mill. It does so until the fantail sails are oriented parallel to the wind, whereby the wind can no longer move them. When the fantail is oriented parallel…
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.