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A museum for the american style water pumping windmill and related machinery with exhibits on wind electric.
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An Ozark folding wheel,
the Twin Wheel and
a 10' US Challenge,
all part of the center's collection
Between 1854, the year Daniel Halladay, a New England machinist, obtained the first American windmill patent, and 1920, over 700 companies manufactured some type of windmill. Prior to 1920, tens of thousands of windmills were sold and erected across the Great Plains.
Windmills from that period are ones that survived the great scrap metal drives of both World Wars. Because of their rarity, information on those early windmills is generally limited to pictures. The story of its development and the effect the windmill had on early pioneers is seldom told, but was the windmill, more than any other invention, that helped settle the West.
The windmill gave railroads access to underground water, permitted ranchers to fence and selectively breed cattle and farmers to live on land where there were no rivers, streams, or lakes. This history can now be told in a permanent facility dedicated to the preservation of the American-style windmill: the American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas.
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The American Wind Power Center 1701 Canyon Lake Drive Lubbock, Texas 79403, Tel: (806) 747-8734 Fax: (806) 740-0668 http://www.windmill.com/ E-mail The American Wind Power Center |
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| Date Added: Tue Sep 13 2005 |
| Last Updated: Tue Sep 13 2005 |
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