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Het Fortuyn, Arnhem
Het Fortuyn ( en, The Fortune) is a tower mill in the Netherlands Open Air Museum, located in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands which was built in 1920 and is in working order. History ''Het Fortuyn'' was originally built at Delft, South Holland in 1696. The first mill on that site was a post mill built in 1551 and demolished during the Eighty Years' War. Permission was granted in 1603 for a replacement mill to be erected. This was also a post mill, known as the ''Slikmolen''. It is shown in the painting ''Gezicht op Delft gezien vanuit het noorden'' by Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom. The painting is in the Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft. ''Het Fortuyn'' was thus the third mill on this site. Circa 1800, the mill was still known as the ''Slikmolen'', gaining the name ''Het Fortuyn'' between 1807 and 1817. The mill drove four pairs of millstones. In 1873, a pair of millstones for the production of pearl barley was added. In the late 19th century the mill was owned by the Rossum family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands Open Air Museum
The Netherlands Open Air Museum ( nl, Nederlands Openluchtmuseum) is an open-air museum located in Arnhem with antique houses, farms, and factories from different parts of the Netherlands. It is a national museum focusing on the culture associated with the everyday lives of ordinary people. It links to key aspects of Dutch history, including the Dutch East India Company and Michiel de Ruyter, as well as the First World War, slavery, and child labour. The park was established on 24 April 1912 and open to the public in July 1918, over the last century the Netherlands Open Air Museum has grown to become one of the country's most visited museums. Annually, the museum has more than 555,000 visitors. The Museum The park is about 44 hectares in area and includes buildings from various places and historical periods. There are around forty historic buildings within the museum. The museum also has a collection of historical clothing and jewellery. A new indoor exhibition space was built in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thatch
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (''Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed—trapping air—thatching also functions as insulation. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries, usually with low-cost local vegetation. By contrast, in some developed countries it is the choice of some affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home, would like a more ecologically friendly roof, or who have purchased an originally thatched abode. History Thatching methods have traditionally been passed down from generation to generation, and numerous descriptions of the materials and methods used in Europe over the past three centuries survive in archives and early public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windmills Completed In 1920
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain ( gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some parts of the English speaking world. The term wind engine is sometimes used to describe such devices. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Persia during the 9th century, and the vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century. Regarded as an icon of Dutch culture, there are approximately 1,000 windmills in the Netherlands today. Forerunners Wind-powered machines may have been known earlier, but there is no clear evidence of windmills before the 9th century. Hero of Alexandria (Heron) in first-century Roman Egypt described what appears to be a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.Dietrich Lohrmann, "Von de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
