Kincir menara adalah sebuah jenis kincir angin vertikal yang terdiri dari menara bata atau batu, yang diduduki sebuah atap atau 'puncak' kayu, yang dapat memutar untuk menangkap angin.[1][2][3][4][5]
Sejarah
Kincir menara bermula dalam sejarah tertulis pada akhir abad ke-13 di barat Eropa; catatan terawal dari keberadaannya adalah dari 1295, dari Stephen de Pencastor of Dover, namun tanggal ilustrasi awal berasal dari dari 1390.[6]
Kutipan
^Righter, Wind energy in America: A History, (1996) 14
^A short history of technology: from the earliest times to A.D. 1900 (1993), 255
^Medieval science, technology, and medicine: an encyclopedia (2005), 520
^Hills, Power from wind: a history of windmill technology, (1996) 51–60
Referensi
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Hills, Richard Leslie. Power from wind: a history of windmill technology. (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Langdon, John. Mills in the medieval economy: England, 1300–1540. (Oxford University Press, 2004)
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Thomas F. Glick, Steven John Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, technology, and medicine: an encyclopedia: Volume 11 of Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. (Routledge, 2005)
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Watts, Martin. Water and wind power. (Osprey Publishing, 2000)
Ball, Robert Steele. Natural sources of power. (D. Van Nostrand company, 1908)
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