Windmill. 16th century cut-away diagram of a windmill used for grinding corn. The shaft attached to the windmill's rotors drives a grinding stone (mar

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Windmill. 16th century cut-away diagram of a windmill used for grinding corn. The shaft attached to the windmill's rotors drives a grinding stone (marked \V\") through a set of cogs. The shaft also drives a winch which lifts sacks of grain up from the ground. Photographed from Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine (1588) by Agostino Ramelli."

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Keywords: corn, energy, grain, grinding, historical, history, mill, power, science, technology, wind, windmill