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Still turning : a history of Aermotor windmills /

The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation?s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company?s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gillis, Christopher C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 27
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Raising water
  • Perry's "mathematical wheel"
  • Open-gear windmill
  • Scholes's resolve
  • New heights
  • Disillusion
  • Saving an icon
  • Experimenters and restorers
  • Still turning
  • Appendix. How an Aermotor oil-bath windmill works.