The Aermotor Windmill Company, or Aermotor Company, is an American manufacturer of wind-powered water pumps.The widespread use of their distinctive wind pumps on ranches throughout the arid plains and deserts of the United States has made their design a quintessential image of the American West.. The company also manufactured galvanized steel fire lookout towers …

William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987) is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in his country in 2001 when he built a wind turbine to power multiple electrical appliances in his family's house in Wimbe, 23 km (14 mi) east of Kasungu, using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard.Since then, he has built a solar …

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some parts of the English speaking world.The term wind engine is sometimes used to describe such devices.. Windmills were used throughout the high …

The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the name of the windmill and its …

UFO Files. An episode of the television series UFO Files is devoted to the Aurora incident. "Texas' Roswell" was first broadcast on December 19, 2005. It begins by recounting a 1973 investigation led by Bill Case, who was an aviation writer for the Dallas Times Herald, and the Texas state director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).. MUFON uncovers two new …

The Blennerville Windmill is a 21.30 m high, stone, reefing stage, windmill in Blennerville, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The mill has five floors, ground floor, intermediate floor, grinding floor, stone floor and cap floor. History. The mill was built in 1800 by order of Sir ...

Biography Personal. Robert Kraus was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1925 to parents Jack, who was in the real estate business, and Esther (Rosen) Kraus. His mother nurtured lessons in him that appear as important themes in Kraus’s later written work in the children’s literature genre. He graduated from Milwaukee’s Layton School for the Arts in 1942 and the Arts Student …

Mykonos (/ ˈ m ɪ k ə n ɒ s,-n oʊ s /, UK also / ˈ m iː k-/; Greek: Μύκονος) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and NaxosChora (i.e. 'Town' in Greek, following the common practice in Greece when the name of the …

風車（ふうしゃ、かざぐるま）は、羽根車に風を受けて回転し、風力から動力を得るための装置。 発電・製粉・風速計などに使われる。 「かざぐるま」と読むと、羽根車に柄を付け、風の力で回して遊ぶ玩具も含まれる（風車 (玩具)参照）。. 英語では windmill だが、mill（原義は碾き …

Pella is a city in Marion County, Iowa, United States, with a population of 10,464 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census. Founded by immigrants from the Netherlands, it is forty miles southeast of Des Moines.Pella is the home of Central College, as well as several manufacturing companies, including Pella Corporation and Vermeer Manufacturing Company