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De Beintemapoldermolen, Westergeest
De Beintemapoldermolen is a smock mill in Westergeest, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1870 and has been restored to working order. It is listed as a Rijksmonument. History ''De Beintemapoldermolen'' was built in 1870 to drain the Beintemapolder. It replaced a mill that had burnt down the previous year. In 1950, an electrically powered pump took over the mills' work. Permission was sought in September 1963 to demolish the mill. This was refused. On 30 March 1965, the mill was sold to the local gemeente. Restoration was carried out in 1968 by millwright De Roos of Leeuwarden, Fresland, On 19 June 1980, the mill was sold to Stichting De Fryske Mole, the 25th mill bought by that organisation. A further restoration was carried out in 1988 by millwright Thijs Jellema of Birdaard, Friesland. It is listed as a Rijksmonument, №23768. Description ''De Beintemapoldermolen'' is what the Dutch describe as a ''Grondzeiler''. It is a one storey smock mill on a single storey base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stichting De Fryske Mole
The Stichting De Fryske Mole (; ; ) is a foundation for the preservation of windmills in the Dutch province Friesland, owning 42 of the 124 windmills in Friesland and closely co-operating with the Gild Fryske Mounders with which it publishes a quarterly magazine, ''De Utskoat''. The ''Stichting De Fryske Mole'' was founded in December 1970 to preserve those mills that were otherwise difficult to save. Consequently, all of the foundation's mills are drainage mills often standing in remote locations where there are no other parties interested in or able to pay for restoration and maintenance. See also * Gild Fryske Mounders * De Hollandsche Molen Vereniging De Hollandsche Molen () ( is a Dutch organization founded in 1923 to preserve windmills in the Netherlands, to document them, and to restore them. Financial support comes from members and from grants by organizations such as the (a D ... External links Website De Fryske Mole [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millwright
A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. The term ''millwright'' (also known as ''industrial mechanic'') is mainly used in the United States, Canada and South Africa to describe members belonging to a particular trade. Other countries use different terms to describe tradesmen engaging in similar activities. Related but distinct crafts include machinists, mechanics and mechanical fitters. As the name suggests, the original function of a millwright was the construction of flour mills, sawmills, paper mills and fulling mills powered by water or wind, made mostly of wood with a limited number of metal parts. Since the use of these structures originates in antiquity, millwrighting could arguably be considered one of the oldest engineering trades and the forerunner of modern mechanical engineering. In modern usage, a millwright is engaged wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agricultural Buildings In The Netherlands
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domestication, domesticated species created food economic surplus, surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. In the 20th century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output. , smallholding, small farms produce about one-third of the world's food, but large farms are prevalent. The largest 1% of farms in the world are greater than and operate more than 70% of the world's farmland. Nearly 40% of agricultural land is found on fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windpumps In The Netherlands
A windpump is a wind-driven device which is used for pumping water. Windpumps were used to pump water since at least the 9th century in what is now Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. The use of wind pumps became widespread across the Muslim world and later spread to China and India. Windmills were later used extensively in Europe, particularly in the Netherlands and the East Anglia area of Great Britain, from the late Middle Ages onwards, to drain land for agricultural or building purposes. Simon Stevin's work in the ''waterstaet'' involved improvements to the sluices and spillways to control flooding. Windmills were already in use to pump the water out, but in ''Van de Molens'' (''On mills''), he suggested improvements, including the idea that the wheels should move slowly, and a better system for meshing of the gear teeth. These improvements increased the efficiency of the windmills used to pump water out of the polders by three times. He received a patent on his innovation in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smock Mills In The Netherlands
Smock may refer to one of the following: * Smock-frock, a coat-like outer garment, often worn to protect the clothes * Smocking, an embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered, then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place * Chemise, a woman's undergarment * A smock mill, a windmill with a wooden tower, resembling the garment in appearance * A Ghanaian smock, a shirt worn in Ghana * Smock (surname), list of people with the name {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windmills Completed In 1870
A windmill is a machine operated by the force of wind acting on vanes or sails to mill grain (gristmills), pump water, generate electricity, or drive other machinery. Windmills were used throughout the high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Persia during the 9th century, and the vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century. Regarded as an icon of Dutch culture, there are approximately 1,000 windmills in the Netherlands today. Forerunners Wind-powered machines have been known earlier, the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi had used wind mill power for his irrigation project in Mesopotamia in the 17th century BC. Later, Hero of Alexandria (Heron) in first-century Roman Egypt described what appears to be a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.Dietrich Lohrmann, "Von der östlichen zur westlichen Windmühle", ''Archiv für Kulturgeschichte'', Vol. 77, Issue 1 (1995), pp. 1–30 (10f.) A. G. Dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
