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Windmills in the Netherlands

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This article contains an outline of the development of the classic wind mill with some additional attention to developments in the Netherlands.

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Acknowledgement

I owe Figures 20 and 23 to the late Gerrit Pouw who made many excellent drawings of mills and their interiors. I am grateful to the Vereniging De Hollandsche Molen for the permission to use the drawings.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Teun Koetsier

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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Koetsier, T. (2024). Windmills in the Netherlands. In: Ceccarelli, M., Aslan Seyhan, I. (eds) Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms. HMM 2024. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54876-5_6

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