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Windmills (Shire Album, Band 456) - Softcover

Watts, Martin

 
9780747806530: Windmills (Shire Album, Band 456)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0747806535 ISBN 13: 9780747806530
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Windmills have been in existence for over eight hundred years and, although only a small fraction of those that once ground corn, pumped water and provided power for industry and agriculture now survives, they still provide a distinctive and often dramatic presence in the British landscape. Among the most important features of these survivors are the variations in design that have come about through their different origins, the use of local materials in their construction, and the influence of the millwrights and millers who built and worked them in different parts of Britain. Understanding these variations is vital for the protection and maintenance of windmills, whose continued survival allows a fascinating insight into the historic use of renewable energy, the development of engineering, and the processing of grain, for flour and bread, as well as other essential products.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Martin Watts has been studying mills since the 1960s. After working in architecture and design he was curator of Worsbrough Mill Museum, South Yorkshire for three years, then spent seven years repairing a watermill in Devon and setting up a stoneground flour business. Since 1988 he has worked as a traditional millwright and consultant, his work covering many aspects of the repair, maintenance, conservation and interpretation of historic mills and their machinery.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747806535
ISBN 13 
9780747806530
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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