I thought the windmill display was awesome. I never new what original windmills looked like. It is amazing that they made them for only one direction of the wind. Then it slowly progressed to Dutch windmills, which we actually saw last week. It was cool to see something that we have already seen on this trip.
I also learned how an eclipse system windmill works, or like an old west windmill. It has a collapsing mechanism that if the wind is to strong the blades will fold up so the structure doesn't tip over.
It was also interesting how Alex was talking about how Germany had taken down most of their windmills and now they are putting them back up.
I thought the windmill exhibit was really neat as well! Being able to look at how the windmills have progressed overtime was a cool process. I honestly never thought of windmills being a very influential part of history, but they were!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed seeing the progression of technology in something like the windmill! The exhibit showed the very first windmills, and now with our current technology, we have the current windmills we see today!
ReplyDeletehaving just left the Netherlands, where windmills are kind of a big deal, it was interesting to see all the science & progression behind the windmills!
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