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Historical development of windmills

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According to historians, the first machines utilising wind energy were operated in the orient. As early as 1,700 B.C., it is mentioned that Hammurabi used windmills for irrigation in the plains of Mesopotamia [1]. There is written evidence of the quite early utilisation of wind power in Afghanistan: Documents from 700 AD confirm that the profession of a millwright was one of high social esteem there [1]. Even today, ruins of these windmills that were running for centuries can be found in Iran and Afghanistan (cf. Fig. 2-1).

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  1. Fak. V Verkehrs- und Maschinensysteme Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrt, TU Berlin, Marchstr. 12-14, 10587, Berlin, Germany

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Gasch, R., Twele, J. (2012). Historical development of windmills. In: Gasch, R., Twele, J. (eds) Wind Power Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22938-1_2

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