Author: John LingPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445664348
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Explore a fascinating illustrated in-depth study of Suffolk's windmills and watermills, past and present.
Windmills and Watermills of Suffolk
Author: John LingPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445664348
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Explore a fascinating illustrated in-depth study of Suffolk's windmills and watermills, past and present.
A Source Book of Windmills and Watermills
Author: Rex WailesPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Windmills & Watermills
Author: John ReynoldsPublisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
British Windmills and Watermills
Author: Charles Philip SkiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island
Author: Anne Frances PullingPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738502885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Windmills and water mills are truly the wonders of an earlier era, the wooden technology of yesteryear. To us, they may be graceful and charming relics. To the colonists, however, they were a vital necessity. Colonial craftsmen constructed them to mill grain, saw wood, pump water, and do various other jobs. Furthermore, the mill was the gathering place for the villagers. While they waited for their grain to be milled, the villagers exchanged news and gossip and stories. Millers were well respected not only for their mill's output but also for their own weather forecasts, knowledge of engines and machines, and, of course, up-to-date news. Long Island is an ideal place for catching the steady wind from the ocean and bays: 125 miles long, narrow--only 20 miles across at its widest, and relatively flat. Thus, many windmills were built here and still exist here, particularly at the island's east end. As a matter of fact, the south fork of eastern Long Island contains the greatest number of surviving windmills in the United States. Before 1700, Long Island also had many water mills, some of them powered by the tide.
History of Corn Milling ...
Author: Richard BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flour-mills
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Renewable Energy Sources
Author: Tasneem AbbasiPublisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 8120339940
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Today, the tide has turned so strongly in favour of renewables that for the first time since the dawn of the fossil fuel era over two hundred years ago renewable energy technologies have started attracting more investment globally than that in the fossil fuel-based technologies. This text provides a comprehensive and wide ranging introduction to various renewable energy technologies and their applications, such as solar, wind, biomass, biogas, wave, geothermal, tidal and small hydel. It provides a thorough understanding of the basic energy conversion processes taking place in various renewable energy-based equipment like heat engines, photovoltaics, wind turbines, windmills, wave machines, and so on. The text also deals with the impact of renewable energy sources on global warming and pollution. The book is intended for courses in Environmental Sciences, Environmental/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering and Energy Studies at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will also serve as a useful reference for scientists, technocrats and environmentalists.
Wind, Water, Work
Author: Adam LucasPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004146490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book is the most comprehensive empirical study to date of the social and technical aspects of milling during the ancient and medieval periods.Drawing on the latest archaeological evidence and historical studies, the book examines the chronological development and technical details of handmills, beast mills, watermills and windmills from the first millennium BCE to c. 1500. It discusses the many and varied uses to which mills were turned in the civilisations of Rome, China, Islam and Europe, and the many types of mill that existed.The book also includes comparative regional studies of the social and economic significance of milling, and tackles several important historiographical issues, such as whether technological stagnation was a characteristic of late Antiquity, whether there was an industrial revolution" in the European Middle Ages based on waterpower, and how contemporary studies in the social shaping of technology can shed light on the study of pre-modern technology."
Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Harvesting the Air
Author: Edward J. KealeyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520329252
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.