The most popular and noticeable design was that of the Dutch. A few are still found around today. Back then, a windmill was used to grind grain into flour, among other uses. Today, wind energy is making a huge comeback. The way it is harnessed is very similar. However, the wooden, four blade windmills have been replaced with towering, metal, three blade wind turbines. These are capable of converting the wind into usable energy for anyone and anything. Even though that the most popular design is that of the Dutch windmill, they actually pre-date the Dutch.
Of course, the exact date of the very first windmill design is unknown. They may have been used in China as long ago as years, however, the earliest record in China is A. The very first recorded design in history originated in Persia around A. It was originally made to pump water and was later adopted to grind grain. The first design was very inefficient. It was made using vertical sails bound by lightweight wood and attached to a vertical shaft by horizontal struts.
That design was known as panemore. After the crusades, the design found its way to Europe. The earliest documented designs date back to A. These had a horizontal axis instead of vertical ones like the panemore. The reasoning behind this design might have come from the fact that European windmills were probably patterned after the water wheel design which had the horizontal axis.
Of course, the water wheel was in Europe well before the windmill. The other reason was that the horizontal axis actually made the windmill more efficient. The way this design looked was it had four blades on a central post. This technology improved immensely over the years. The most innovation came from the Dutch and the English.
The most important improvement was the creation of the tower mill. The Dutch introduce tower mills with multiple levels inside. This way, the people who worked the mill were able to sleep and essentially live. The English made a number of automatic controls that made them even more efficient. During the industrial revolution, Europe adopted the windmill to power a great number of different things. Some of these new applications include saw mills, processing spices, dyes, and also tobacco.
America perfected the windmill design in the 19th century. The Halladay windmill, made in by the Aermotor and Dempster designs, had over six million made between and They are also still in use today. How the old windmills work is a bit different from how wind turbines work today. However, both were very good at harnessing the energy of the wind, for their times.
Modern wind turbines act a bit differently than their ancestors. These turbines generate electricity and distribute it where the need is.
However, the function of these windmills is essentially the same. To harness the energy from the wind. Of course, there is a lot more that goes into getting that energy now than there was. And we get more out of wind power as well. Secondary Pumping Station De Fabriek was opened in It features a multi-screen film that is the perfect start for your Kinderdijk World Heritage visit. Buy tickets. Mills Kinderdijk has no fewer than nineteen of the more than 1, windmills in the Netherlands.
The Lekkerland polder windmills Of the three original Lekkerland windmills, two remain. The Overwaard windmills The wooden windmills of the Overwaard use a scoop wheel to pump water from the Lower Basin to the Upper Basin. The Blokweer polder windmill In this museum windmill, you get a personal experience of the miller's trade in real life!
Pumps From steam to electricity and diesel, and currently by a computer-operated system of pumping stations, the Kinderdijk mills got help from ever-better pumps to keep draining the rising water from the polder.
Wisboom pumping station In , Overwaard got help from this steam-powered pump. Smit pumping station This diesel pump replaced the Van Haaften pumping station in Kok pumping station Replacing the old Wisboom station, this electric pump uses three giant Archimedean screws to discharge water at volumes greater than the capacity of 24 windmills combined!
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