• Windmills are powered by their sails. Sails are found in different forms, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails. The jib sail is found...
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    A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills)...
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  • television series Sonic Prime Windmill sail, the wind-catching panel or cloth section that provides power to a windmill Sail (submarine), the tower-like...
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    Heckington Windmill is the only eight-sailed tower windmill still standing in the United Kingdom with its sails intact. Heckington is located between Sleaford...
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    windsurfers, ice boats, and sail-powered land vehicles. Similar principles in a rotating frame of reference apply to windmill sails and wind turbine blades...
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    spring sails, before becoming derelict. Following the possibility of its demolition, it was acquired and restored in 1962 by Wrawby Windmill Preservation...
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    Wimbledon Windmill is a Grade II* listed windmill situated on Wimbledon Common in the London Borough of Merton (originally in Surrey), in the west of...
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    called because of its distinctive initial layout, which resembles a windmill's sails. It is also known under the name Propeller. First, an ace is placed...
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    type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden 'cap' or roof, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind....
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    phase of the mission, a "windmill experiment" was performed: Atmospheric molecular pressure exerts a torque via the windmill-sail-like oriented solar cell...
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    Moulin Rouge (redirect from Red Windmill)
    Retrieved 28 May 2022. Henley, Jon (25 April 2024). "Moulin Rouge windmill sails collapse in Paris". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2024. • "CACHE...
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    the great engineering undertakings of his time. He invented a type of windmill sail and the prison treadwheel, and was employed as chief engineer, at Ransomes...
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  • rotate 360° no matter in which direction the ship is heading, a windmill ship can sail in any direction. It can move directly upwind, a point of sailing...
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    Maud Foster Windmill is a seven-storey, five sail windmill located by the Maud Foster Drain in Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, from which she is named...
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    Alford Windmill is a five-sailed windmill in Alford, Lincolnshire and the only surviving windmill out of four. Though the windmill has been restored to...
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    A panemone windmill is a type of vertical-axis wind turbine. It has a rotating axis positioned vertically, while the wind-catching blades move parallel...
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    Applied Clay Science. 135: 271–281. doi:10.1016/j.clay.2016.10.004. Werken met molens by Werkgroep West-Vlaamse Molens v.z.w. Bolus used for windmill sail...
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    was the home of Sir William Cubitt, who invented the self-regulating windmill sail and the prison treadmill. Since the millpond at Ebridge has been cleared...
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    correct, in the windmill's sails and the river's waves respectively. It is not known for certain when Ruisdael painted the Windmill. The painting is...
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    full-size replica of a Dutch windmill. He built it himself with the help of his wife, May. The windmill is 60 feet high and has sail arms of 68 feet from tip...
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    Originally Upminster windmill had canvas sails, but the sails on the mill when it ceased working commercially were four double patent sails. They were carried...
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    Cley Windmill is a Grade II* listed tower mill at Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, England which has been converted to hotel accommodation. Cley Windmill was...
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    531 on the 2011 census. Alford is known for its Grade I listed five-sailed windmill, a tower mill built in 1837 by Sam Oxley, an Alford millwright. In...
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    Earlier (c.1772), he also invented windmill "spring sails", which replaced the simple canvas designs previously used with sails made from a series of shutters...
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    Chesterton Windmill is a 17th-century cylindric stone tower windmill with an arched base, located outside the village of Chesterton, Warwickshire. It...
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    Smock mill (redirect from Smock windmill)
    is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This type of windmill got its name from its resemblance to smocks worn by farmers...
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    following design: 1.   Arms: Upon a shield, saltire wise, the sails of a windmill. Between the sails, in chief a beaver, in base a beaver, and on each flank...
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    Feanstermoune was built in 1864. In 1907, an electro motor was installed. The windmill sail was damaged during a storm in 1946, and not repaired. The wind mill...
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    owner Bob Bocksel and the windmill went up in 2008. In May 2022, this windmill was damaged by a strong windstorm; the sails caught in the arms of the...
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    Pitstone Windmill is a Grade II* listed windmill in England. It is thought to have been built in the early 17th century, and stands in the northeastern...
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