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The Windmill (magazine)
A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy. Windmill may also refer to: Music * Windmills (Rick Roberts album), ''Windmills'' (Rick Roberts album) * Windmill (song), "Windmill" (song), a song by Helloween on the 1993 album ''Chameleon'' * "Windmills", a song by The Vamps from the 2015 album ''Wake Up (The Vamps album), Wake Up'' * Windmill (Feeder song), "Windmill" (Feeder song), a song by Feeder from the 2019 album ''Tallulah'' * "Windmills", a song by Blackmore's Night from the 2006 album ''The Village Lanterne#Track listing, The Village Lanterne'' * "The Windmill", a march chant sung by English members of the French Foreign Legion * Windmill, a Guitar showmanship#Pete Townshend, guitar move credited to Pete Townshend of The Who * Windmill, the moniker of British singer-songwriter Matthew Thomas Dillon Films and television * The Windmill (1937 film), ''The Windmill'' (1937 film), a 1937 British film * The Windmill (2016 film), ''The Windmill'' (2016 film), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
