The first windmills were believed to have been built in the tenth century, but the first written record of one was in the twelfth century. ... In Holland, the people built windmills because the water level was too high. ... By this time windmills were being called turbines. ... Kinds of Windmills There are two types of windmills. ... It was built with two levels so that a family could live in the base of it. ...

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Mankind has built and invented millions of machinery to use energy, to make our daily lives much easier and satisfying. ... These mills had a far more sophisticated design made out of strong stone built towers. By using brick and stone for the body, tower mills can be built even larger and taller than other mills, they are also more durable, and more weatherproof. ... Another improvement is the windmills mechanism. ... The newly built windmills consisted of 8 blades, rather than 4. ...

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Windmills built bring in profit to a landowner. ... Windmills are not silent. ... I live in an area where windmills are being built and I am always surprised when I hear people complain that they are an eyesore. Sometimes there is an impact on adjacent and nearby land when you are talking about windmills built on a large scale (not personal windmills). ... Great care must be taken that the windmills are not built in a path of migration for the bats or birds. ...

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The creator of Stonehenge, which was built in 3100 B.C., remains a mystery to the scientific world. The alignment of Stonehenge has made it clear that whoever built it had a precise astronomical knowledge of the path of the sun. ... The Windmill Hill people also hunted, made tools, traded, and could have been compared to industrialists. ... This is why some scientists consider that the Windmill Hill people could have built Stonehenge as a graveyard. ... In summary, the Windmill people play a very important role in the construction of Stonehenge. ...

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In Animal farm one event that shows this is the windmill construction. The windmill, built up for the promise of electricity therefore more food, shows what the animalist government can achieve. Although this achievement often comes at a terrible loss, as seen when boxer the hardest working horse is killed while building this windmill. This too can be seen in Stalin's revolution, where their industry was built up by the working class but had not thought of the human life in took. Therefore, through the windmill, inequalities because of class stratification where the pigs and Stalin are on...

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A New England machinist obtained the first American windmill patent in 1854. ... Prior to 1920, thousands of windmills were put up across the Great Plains and helped settle the West. Windmills were used to bring water to farms and railroads. ... But three wind farms have been built in Texas in the last two years, and another is in development in Oklahoma. ... Another wind farm is being built off shore in Wales. ...

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The first windmills were used around 700 A.D. in what is now the country of Iran. ... In Europe, windmills became popular around the 1100's because they could be built anywhere, had many uses and could be used year-round. In the 1800's, thousands of people across North America built windmills on their land, utilizing it's benefits to run their homes and farms. Over a hundred years ago, people began connecting windmills to generators to power newly invented light bulbs and batteries. The world's first utility scale turbine was built on a mountaintop in Vermont, producing 1....

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By the twelfth century, the English, Dutch, and French had adapted the small windmills into larger more powerful windmills to suit their needs of crushing grain and pumping water. ... In the 1890's the first modern windmill was designed to produce electricity, hundred of these new windmills dotted the landscape in Denmark by the turn of the twentieth century. ... Most of these windmills were built on farms and ranches for mechanical power. ... Today, improvements have greatly improved the reliability of windmills. ... Most windmills used are designed for the bulk electricity market; the...

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In the ancient time, windmills were used to pump water and mill grain. ... Windmills convert the wind's energy into electrical or mechanical power. The first windmill was built in 1890 in Denmark by P. LaCour, and in 1942, Plamer Putman built the largest wind turbine in the word. Scientists established modern larger windmills called Wind Turbines or wind generators which generate electricity. ...

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Napoleon and Snowball get into an argument over a windmill that Snowball wants to build but Napoleon disagrees with him. ... He destroys the windmill that the animals built. ... When the animals are rebuilding the windmill, Boxer is very weak and collapses. ...

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Discuss and explain the factors contributing to Napoleons rise to power. There are many factors contributing to Napoleons rise to power from the very start of the Rebellion until he had complete control over the animals physically and mentally. His rise to power started as soon as Jones was kick...

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What was the purpose of Stonehenge being built, and that being said how was it constructed. ... As you know, there has not been even one major structure built in the future nor the past that was ever completed by one man alone. ... The first Tribe involved in the construction of Stonehenge was the Windmill Hill Tribe who arrived in the Neolithic Era of time. ... The Windmill Hill people had a very strong ties and beliefs in their religion with a great respect for their dead and their ancestors. ... This first phase, Stonehenge I, built by the Windmill Hill people, took f...

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What was the purpose of Stonehenge being built, and that being said how was it constructed. ... As you know, there has not been even one major structure built in the future nor the past that was ever completed by one man alone. ... The first Tribe involved in the construction of Stonehenge was the Windmill Hill Tribe who arrived in the Neolithic Era of time. ... The Windmill Hill people had a very strong ties and beliefs in their religion with a great respect for their dead and their ancestors. ... This first phase, Stonehenge I, built by the Windmill Hill people, took from about 2...

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Introduction "Animal Farm" is a symbolical political satire in which animals take the place of humans. These animals can talk and are just as intelligent as humans. They learn to read and each type of animal a different aspect of humanity. (Ex.: Pigs- Politicians; Horses- Laborers; Sheep- Gullible P...

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In this extract, the reader learns that Boxer is very well respected by his fellow animals (except the pigs, arguably). This is shown through three things: his physical strength and how his appearance changes, his attitude and the other animals' actions towards him. Before Boxer falls down he is des...

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However as the city grew rapidly in the later 1920s and 30s, there was a motorway built up just beyond the edge of the house's small garden.11 The house was built on a site of approximately 400 meters square and has a form of a box that is almost square with balconies to the south and east. ... There are many labour-saving devices and built-in features, which were probably among Mrs Schroder major contributions to the design.14 Each separate area that could be partitioned off was provided with a bed, a washbasin and a gas point for a cooking ring so that each could be occupied in as priv...

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Ecotourism or ecologically sustainable tourism is a very delicate form of tourism that deals with nature and the environment, however, it is not just as simple as slapping up solar panels, building and windmill and making tourists drink rainwater, it is much more complicated and required a lot of planning. ... King Fisher bay on Frazier Island has hectares of well maintained garden full of natives and is built from weathering timber. ... By park rules, tourists stay in a lodging complex (with facilities ranging from deluxe to backpackers) built 20 kilometres from Uluru. ...

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One of the leaders come up with the idea to build a windmill for electricity, but the other leader wants it to be his idea so he runs the other leader off. ... As the animals work on the windmill they notice the decrease in their food supply. ... It showed propaganda and political pamphlets, which had cameras and microphones built in so the party could spy on the people. ...

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For example, the Windmill stands for the Russian industry that had been built by the working class (clover and Boxer). Indeed, the destruction of the windmill is supposed to symbolise the failure of the five year plans-plans introduced by Stalin to industrialise Russia. ...

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Most hydropower plants are built through federal or local agencies as part of a multipurpose project. Hydroelectric plants have a preventive start up cost, but once it is built the cost to maintain it is low. ... Birds in the area don't usually see the blades for the windmills and fly straight into them. ... The wind is the hardest one to find a place for, there are already windmills in place where ever there is a good location to put them in. ...

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In France, in 1770 a military engineer named Nicholas Joseph Cugnot built a large steam-driven vehicle. ... It was a windmill-type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Juan Vaturio designed a similar vehicle that was also never built. ... The British inventor William Symington, in 1786 built a working model of a so-called steam carriage. The first automobile to carry passengers was built in 1801 by the British inventor Richard Trevithick. ...

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From 1700 on, the Staffordshire potters used waterwheels or windmills to turn machines that ground and mixed their materials. ... Russia harnessed the Dneiper River and the Irish Free State built power plants on the River Shannon. Germany was supplied with electricity in the 1920,s and by 1936 Great Britain had built an "electric grid" completely covering the country. ... Electric lighting was in commercial use long before Thomas Edison built his first successful incandescent lamp in the early 1880's. ... Many new machines were powered by running water, so inventors built spinning mills ...

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Shortly after, a vast network of roads were built to connect what was then an America that was disconnected between cities and towns. ... Brill steel diners were built by the Wason Manufacturing Company in 1927 and brought to the table a completely unique look with resembled railroad cars. ... The design had a huge windmill with blue porcelain enamel panels that rotated. Covered in neon, the windmill sat above the retail bakery of the diner and attracted viewers from miles away. ... The need for an attention grabber was key, and the use of the windmill and the neon lights did just that. ...

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