Windmills, picturesque and historic : the Motors of the past / by F.H. Shelton (1919)
Shelton, F. H · [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Lippincott · leaf 16
nd in some early mills of Holland,and in the mills at Newport, R. I., but also, in the rare old Peytomill at Leamington, England, of 1632, of which I shall speakfurther. These chain pulls were either inside or out; the formerbeing more protected from the weather. But all these hand devices were… … Thatched tower pumping mill. Holland. ■of the mill, up aloft, and so connected by a train of small gearingthat when it rotated it would turn the main head a little, and ifneed be follow up the variations of the wind. So accurately wasthis designed that it is said that even with the wind shifting…
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