Quiz: What Do You Know About Dutch Windmills?
Quiz: What Do You Know About Dutch Windmills?
Giant wind power turbines are not the only way to put the breezes to work.
Long before wind power meant slender, electricity-generating turbines, the wind was put to work by people all over the world. The country most associated with these old-fashioned windmills is the Netherlands, which still has as many as 1,200 of the iconic structures used for draining soggy fields.
Test your knowledge of these windmills in this ASME quiz.
Test your knowledge of these windmills in this ASME quiz.
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