The Windmill

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Excerpt from The Windmill: Its Efficiency and Economic Use, A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Cornell University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy History does not record the name of the person who invented the windmill, nor give the date of the invention. The belief that wind mills were used by the Romans is not well authenticated, and their use by the Bohemians in 718 is doubted. It is quite clear, however, that they were used in France and Italy in the twelfth century for grinding corn, and that they were used in Holland in the fifteenth century for pumping water over the dikes into the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.