Wind Power!

Since ancient times, man has harness the power of the wind. The earliest known use of wind power is the sailboat, and this technology played an important role in the development of sail-type windmills. Windmills have been around for at least 1,300 years. The first windmills had vertical shafts and were built in Persia around the 7th century ed. Made from 6 to 12 sail covered in fabric home please, they were used to bring corn in pump water. The pinnacles of windmill designs included those built by the Dutch and British. The Dutch use windmills extensively to pump water as well as grind flour. They also developed many advanced "automatic control" mechanisms over the centuries. The promise of power from wind lives on, both in the form of wind turbines producing electricity in the form of small-scale wind pumps, still used extensively in world agriculture.