In 1890, a fast-growing Indiana company, Flint & Walling, opened a distribution center for its popular Star Wind Mills in Cedar Rapids. A year later, the company decided to save on shipping and start ...

The first such windmills were developed in the mid-1850s by Connecticut machinist Daniel Halladay. They differed dramatically, both in form and function, from traditional European windmills (think Don ...

VICTOR, Mont. — You can still find windmills on the American landscape. Most of them are in rural areas with limited water. But for the most part, they are vestiges of a time that is passing. Big Sky ...

Regarding the letter by Don Siefkes, of San Leandro, "Let's fill Lake Powell in less than a year via Mississippi aqueduct." As long as we are dreaming up solutions, the aqueduct should be terminated ...

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