Ancient mariners used sails to capture the wind. Farmers once used windmills to grind their grains and pump water. Today, more and more wind turbines wring electricity from the breeze. Over the ...

For hundreds of years in America, the most important application of windmills was to provide power to pump for water and it ...

A new form of flood defense was needed. In the 16th century, it was determined that a series of windmills could be used to pump water into a nearby reservoir. The reservoir could then be let out ...