Download or read book Windmills and Watermills of Suffolk written by John Ling and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a fascinating illustrated in-depth study of Suffolk's windmills and watermills, past and present.
Download or read book AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties Long Island written by American Institute of Architects and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive, well-researched and generously illustrated volume of its kind on the subject, bringing over three centuries of Long Island’s great architectural heritage to life. Over 240 photographs, complete with authoritative, extensively detailed captions, present a wide range of structures—from simple lean-tos to distinguished contemporary buildings by such architects as Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, David L. Finci and others.
Download or read book Windmills and Millwrighting written by Stanley Freese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise, yet highly detailed, record of the processes involved in building and maintaining windmills.
Download or read book Windmills in Essex written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Kirby s Suffolk written by and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimiles of four rare mid-eighteenth-century maps of Suffolk, and early roadbook from the same period. Here, published in facsimile for the first time since the eighteenth century, are John Kirby's extremely rare large-scale Suffolk maps of 1736 and 1737 and the 1735 edition of his road-book The Suffolk Traveller, the earliest single-county roadbook. Those who subscribed for the 1736 map received the 1735 Traveller gratis. The maps of 1764 and 1766 which his sons published after his death are also provided, the former decorated with twelve engravings of castles and abbeys in the county. The earliest maps were the result of a survey of the whole county which Kirby carried out, with some help from Nathaniel Bacon, between 1732 and 1734. Although it is easy to pointto inaccuracies, the hand-coloured maps are highly decorative and correct many of the errors common on earlier Suffolk maps in county atlases. The heraldry on the one-inch maps and the named owners and occupiers of the larger estates provide the basis for new select directories of the county in the mid 1730s and mid-1760s. This work of Suffolk topography includes a biography of John Kirby himself and a full account of the travails of publishing his maps and book. Contributions by JENNY JAMES.
Download or read book Windmills written by Richard Leslie Hills and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly informative book contains some 500 black and white photographs of the various types of windmills and describes their main uses; many of the photographs have not been published before. People do not always realise how much of an influence windmills had on the life and productivity in the world prior to steam. Windmills were not just used in corn milling but for land drainage (here and in The Netherlands); in saw mills, mustard milling, papermaking; oil and colour mills, chalk grinding, flax and barley mills: There is a gazetteer of British windmills and some foreign ones, and a comprehensive glossary and bibliography.
Download or read book Power from Wind written by Richard Leslie Hills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wind is a fickle source of power. Windspeeds are frequently too low to be of any practical use, so that windpower has generally remained a marginal resource. Since the inception of windpower around 1000 AD, technology has been deployed to obtain the most economical power from wind. The author traces its technical evolution, concentrating on the growth in understanding of wind and charting crucial developments in windmill design. The history of the windmill is focused on North Western Europe, drawing on the origins of the first horizontal windmills in Persia, Tibet and China. Industrial applications such as in textiles, papermaking and mining are examined. Gradually, windmills were improved but were finally eclipsed by steam engines in the nineteenth century due to increased levels of industrialisation. The book concludes with a look at the recent re-emergence of windpower as a viable source of power in the wake of the energy crisis.
Download or read book Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island written by Anne Frances Pulling and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Windmills of Norfolk written by John Ling and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and in-depth study of of Norfolk's windmills, past and present.
Download or read book The Windmills of Thomas Hennell written by Alan Stoyel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hennell was an artist whose delightful water colours of rural subject are much sought after. This book features over 100 images of windmills and their machinery. They portray the workings and settings in the landscape of windmills in a way never captured on film.
Download or read book Harvesting the Air written by Edward J. Kealey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book England s Vanishing Windmills written by A. E. P. Shillingford and published by Godfrey Cave Associates. This book was released on 1979 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Z of Norfolk Windmills written by Mike Page and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk is famed as a county of windmills and there is no better way of seeing them than from the air. In this illustrated work, using aerial photographs taken by Mike Page, the reader is taken on a flight across the county looking at all the sites where windmills are still to be seen.
Download or read book Wind Water Work written by Adam Lucas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Yorkshire Windmills Through Time written by Alan Whitworth and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Yorkshire's Windmills have changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book Civil Engineering Heritage written by E. A. Labrum and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1994 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has a heritage of civil engineering works unrivalled anywhere. The skills of past engineers are in evidence throughout the land in the infrastructure. This work is suitable for the technical and non-technical reader, and the area covered in it reaches from the Humber to the Thames and from East Anglia to central England.
Download or read book Wind Energy Revolution written by Christopher C. Gillis and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating electricity. Not so. Most of these attempts fail, even with the availability of the latest technologies. In Wind Energy Revolution, Christopher C. Gillis Sr. examines the efforts to develop “small” wind generators for use at homes, farms, and ranches following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. Wind machines were once featured prominently on farms and homesteads throughout the Midwest of the United States and Canada during the late 1910s through the early 1950s in areas that had no access to overhead electric-power transmission lines. As a result of rural America’s connection to the power grid, many of these pioneer wind-electric machines fell “victim” to electrical power lines. Interest in wind energy resurfaced in the early 1970s when energy shortages were created by the Arab Oil Embargo, the rise of environmentalism, and the move toward self-sufficient, off-the-grid living. Early wind-electric machines were dusted off and restored back into service, while several former manufacturers reemerged, and entrepreneurs developed new designs. Political and societal interest in renewable energies—wind and solar—began to wane in the early 1980s and did not return until the late 1990s. Even so, the developments in the 1970s influenced how Americans subsequently viewed and used renewable power. Wind Energy Revolution is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive history for historians and anyone interested in wind as a viable renewable resource.
