List Of Windmills In Drenthe
A list of windmills in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Drenthe. Notes Mills still standing marked in bold. Known building dates are bold, otherwise the date is the earliest known date the mill was standing. References

Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is the linked Molendatabase or De Hollandsche Molen entry. {{Dutch Windmills Windmills in Drenthe, Lists of windmills in the Netherlands, Drenthe ...
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Windmill
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called windmill sail, sails or blades, specifically to mill (grinding), 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 Middle Ages, 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 Culture of the Netherlands, 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 ...
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