The Generation of Electricity by Wind Power |
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Contents
The history of windmills | 6 |
Fig No Page 1 Diagram of old Persian windmill of the vertical axis type | 7 |
Small horizontaltype windmill blowing an organ Hero of Alexandria | 8 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Generation of Electricity by Wind Power Electrical engineeElectrical engineering series Spon's electrical engineering series |
| Author | Edward William Golding |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | E. & F. N. Spon, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 18, 2006 |
| Length | 318 pages |
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