Dutch Windmills
9O6QvXIGHFk • 2013-12-11
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in the Netherlands people have always
found ingenious ways to live near and
below the water we've always been a
country on the edge of the water we've
also always lived in a land that gets
flooded every now and then Peter Paul
clck is a Miller at Kinder Dy the
largest collection of working vintage
windmills in Holland his windmill was
built in
1740 so the windmills in 1450 when they
were introduced enabled us to live in
areas where before we couldn't live so
when we started building dkes see we
needed windmills to pump out all the
rain water and all the water coming up
from the ground they are iconic and
quaint
now but in their day they were the
state-of-the-art in flood control techn
te ology on the outside here are the
four
sails two beams holding four
sails and then if the sails turn it's
right the wheel will
turn and this will start
spinning
and the screw gets turned by the
wind it is an archimedian screw that can
lift water
up as the windmills turned they turned
uninhabitable marshes into Lush Farmland
called poers The Dutch have not stopped
pumping their poers dry ever since they
don't have a choice a quarter of the
country sits below sea
level
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