Less known facts about windmills
- windmills are thought to have appeared in eastern Persia; other theories claim that windmills were already being used at 633-634 AD
- the vertical windmill originates in northern France, eastern England and Flanders, other type of a windmill is the smock mill, invented England 1745
- some of the tasks that windmills have been created in those times were to grind grain, threshing, land drainage or water suppling
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