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Windmills - Early works to 1800
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An essay on the comparative advantages of vertical and horizontal wind-mills: containing A description of an horizontal Wind-Mill and Water-Mill, upon a new construction; and explaining the manner of applying the same principle to pumps, sluices, methods for moving boats or vessels, &c. &c. With Plates. By Robert Beatson, Esq. F.R.S.E. Honorary Member of the Board of Agriculture, Member of the Society of London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and of the Royal Highland Society of Scotland, and late of his Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers.
Beatson, Robert, 1742-1818.Date: 1798- Books
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Experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of wind and water to turn mills and other machines depending on a circular motion. And an experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest. Also new fundamental experiments upon the collision of bodies. With five plates of machines. By the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.
Smeaton, John, 1724-1792.Date: 1794