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January 19, 2024
I hadn’t really considered how close the link is between windmills and wooden boats until Kees Prins told us his story of translating one trade into another. This great video takes us inside a Dutch windmill and makes the connections easy to visualize.
Whether trying to create a functional wooden boat or a population-saving windmill, they combine practical and pragmatic origins with craft and trade in very similar ways. Bernoulli’s principle is in full effect helping to pumping water or moving a sailboat, and the interior of the old windmills look very much like classic ships.
Despite all those similarities, there’s something much more intimidating (to me, at least) about the windmills’ giant rotating parts – especially the large wooden teeth of the gears! – compared to sailboats’ largest parts merely oscillating through arcs.
Both have certainly proved to be ingenious and lasting inventions to allow humans to live in, around, and even “under” the water.
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