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Kind: captions Language: en 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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