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Mill Writing

Ladies please

November 01 2009 by William Hill (295 views)
Mill People & Family History &Mills outside the UK &Watermills &Windmills | 2 Comments

Heage Gets a lady miller (though they seem to have forgotten Mildred Cookson...) and a US lady miller is also featured

Tide Mill Institute Conference 2009

September 20 2009 by Earl Taylor (457 views)
Electricity Generation &Mills outside the UK &Watermills | Leave a comment

The Tide Mill Conference for 2009 is scheduled for Friday, Saturday November 6-7, 2009. The venue will be the Dorchester Historical Society's William Clapp House at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester (Boston), MA in the USA

Snuff Mills

June 29 2009 by William Hill (533 views)
Mills outside the UK &Windmills | Leave a comment

Nice stuff on 2 Dutch snuff mills. The image is of a millstone used for milling spices, at De Ster snuff and spice mill in Rotterdam.

Transfer of Windmill or Watermill Technology

May 30 2009 by Torben Jenk (USA) (513 views)
Research &Mills outside the UK &Watermills &Windmills | Leave a comment

What evidence is there for transatlantic technology transfer as far as mill construction is concerned?

Wind farm ‘kills Taiwanese goats’

May 21 2009 by Cogito (603 views)
Electricity Generation &Mills outside the UK &Windmills | 2 Comments

The BBC (Asia-Pacific News) reports A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm.

History of the Tornado Windmill Co

May 18 2009 by William Hill (517 views)
Mills outside the UK &TIMS &Windmills | Leave a comment

In the latest set of links to news items, an interesting history of the Tornado Windmill Company in New York State from its founding in 1874 attracted my attention

Medieval London water mill found

March 04 2009 by Ron Cookson (1377 views)
Electricity Generation &News of Mills &Mills outside the UK &Watermills | Leave a comment

William Hill's latest list of news links includes the BBC News item from mid February http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7894524.stm describing the 12th century tide mill at Greenwich.

New Website on European Windmills

February 23 2009 by Leo van Raamsdonk (591 views)
Mills outside the UK &TIMS &Windmills | Leave a comment

For years now I am interested in regional diversity and development of windmills. After a period that I didn't have the possibility to pay attention, I recently started to study traditional windmills again. One of the current results is a …

Peotone windmill’s fate still twisting in the wind

February 16 2009 by William Hill (659 views)
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The Chicago Tribune reports on the Rathje Windmill which has stood guard on the north end of Peotone in southern Will County, which now needs money spent on it