Show HISTORY history OF THE WINDMILL question of ownership of wind once of great moment design of the movable dome windmills are sald said to t have bren been introduced trod into england by the knights of st john who observed went them in use among the Sara saracena cens in ili tho the crusades but how long they had been in existence before this it la Is not possible to ascertain A water mill was built in Iloh emla in the bo year for an old chronicler mentions it going on to say that before that time nil all the mills mill s in bohemia nohemia were wind mills set upon the summit of hills wind mills became BO common throughout europe lit in the thirteenth century that the pope compelled them to pay tithes to the church chuich and landed proprietors and the clergy were forever qua quarreling ng as to the ownership of the wind tn in zealand a bertan abbot built a mill to grind his corn in reite of the violent opposition of his landlord who said that lie was the owner awner of the wind on hla his property and no ono one else had the right to make use of it the bishop ot of utrecht was appointed arbitrator and he when told of the matter after M lew flow into a rage declaring that w wh lint at wind there was in hla his diocese belonged to himself and the church and he be proceeded to prove its his conte contention atlon by at once granting the abbot full lawor to build a wind mill when and where ho he choose for hundreds of 0 years wind mills were among the most important adjuncts of industry yet they hardly changed from the rudo rude and primitive design of earliest days they fixed in ono one position and so could only bo be worked when the wind blew from a certain quarter while the four calls boasted no slats slata or checking ap of any kind which must have been most inconvenient at times the first idea of arranging a mill so BO that it could be worked chelle or the wind did blow was that of tethering an ordinary mill in the middle of a pond by moans means of ropes when the wind shifted tho ho ropes were loosed and tho the mill dragged around until the sails nails wore were caught by the wind and it was then again tethered na as before later on a great pole which was worked on the principle of a turntable was affixed to the mill not until 1600 did Il holland olland the land annd of wind mills introduce a movable dome carrying the sall sail axle the dome ran on rollers mollere and was ana shifted around by means means of the pole pola mentioned above these ancient mills were often of massive build being made of brick or stone and later entirely of wood |