Delicious Links for 2009-08-23

do Inventing Green de Alexis Madrigal

• Nebraska State Historical Society Home Page
  Looking for evidence of windmill impact on real estate prices. Tough job.
  (tags: windmill wind)
• A field guide to American windmill
  T. Lindsay Baker goes through dozens of types of windmills with his particular obsessive rigor.
  (tags: windmill wind library todo)
• In The Public Domain - Windmills On The Prairies
  Basic history, includes datapoint of 5.5 million windmills sold by 1900.
  (tags: wind windmill)
• LaVerne Noyes Talks to the Second Convention of Weather Bureau Officials
  He computes the energy available from an acre… Compares it to Niagara. Nice quotes about coal, etc, too.
  (tags: noyes windmill wind eclipse)
• History Of The AERMOTOR Windmill Corporation
  Kind of a lame, weird site, but quite an excellent history provided by Ken O'Brock, all the way up to the late 80s.
  (tags: windmill wind)
• Wheeler Family Papers, 1833-1949 (1833), 1833 [Wheeler Family]
  Nice to know that the University of Wisconsin has the papers of Leonard Wheeler, who designed one of the big three windmills of the 19th century, the Eclipse.
  (tags: archive windmill wind)
• Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station - University of Wisconsin
  Some actual experiments carried out on a 16 foot Aermotor.
  (tags: wind windmill)