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Mill Writing

Mills in Iceland

December 19 2008 by TIMS Lady (293 views)
Mills outside the UK & TIMS & Windmills | 1 Comment

Peter Cobley wrote a nice piece on a windmill he discovered on a trip to Iceland. The article can be read here

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I am reminded of the 1976 Bibliotecha Molinologica publication by Beenhaker, which is now out of print, but there is a second hand copy at http://shop.millsarchivetrust.org/ price £10

Windmill Surprise by Peter Cobley

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Posted by Florian Eickmann

Fri, December 19, 2008

Does anyone know wether that windmill is a "real historic windmill" or is it a merely ethnographic shell that is supposed to be a copy of something that might have looked similar... ? I can hardly imagine the sails being operable at all - although, maybe strong arctic winds might have forced local craftsmen to develop sails that generate as few energy as possible not to damage the machinery?

Cheers from Germany

Florian Eickmann

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