Mill writing

Rope as brake construction

September 15 2010 by Ruurd-Jakob Nauta (891 views)
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All the windmills in The Netherlands have a brake made out of wood or iron. My own windmill has a brake out of wood. But it keeps me wondering, if there are any mills left in North America, who have …

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Tide Mill Institute 2010 Conference

August 31 2010 by Ron (553 views)
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HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABILITY - The 6th Annual Tide Mill Conference – November 12 and 13, 2010, Massachusetts, USA

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British Millwrights Downunder

July 22 2010 by Jonathan Cook (823 views)
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As you may be aware, Neil Medcalf is making excellent progress in Tasmania rebuilding Callington Mill. The link below shows the sails going on.

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Loix Tide Mill threatened with being demolished

May 06 2010 by Cláudia Silveira and others (923 views)
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Portuguese and French mill people are hoping to raise international concern about the proposed destruction of the only tide mill in Ile de Ré. Please make your comments on their blog at http://sauvezlemoulinamaree.over-blog.org/

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Irish Photographs

March 20 2010 by Ron (845 views)
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The National Library of Ireland has recently released 34,000 of its 630,000 original Irish photographs on its website.

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Ladies please

November 01 2009 by William Hill (969 views)
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Heage Gets a lady miller (though they seem to have forgotten Mildred Cookson...) and a US lady miller is also featured

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Tide Mill Institute Conference 2009

September 20 2009 by Earl Taylor (1041 views)
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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

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Snuff Mills

June 29 2009 by William Hill (1068 views)
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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.

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Transfer of Windmill or Watermill Technology

May 30 2009 by Torben Jenk (USA) (1284 views)
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What evidence is there for transatlantic technology transfer as far as mill construction is concerned?

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Wind farm ‘kills Taiwanese goats’

May 21 2009 by Cogito (1372 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.

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