Sentence examples for wind pumps from inspiring English sources
After another American, Stewart Perry, began constructing wind pumps made of steel and equipped with metal vanes in 1883, this new and simple device spread around the world.
Like most Broads' wind pumps, the one in Thurne village is a beautiful and nonfunctional artifact; plain electric pumps regulate the water levels in the marsh today.
By the time I woke the train had reached the geographical centre of South Africa, the Karoo, where sheep graze beside dilapidated wind pumps and the flat-topped hillocks called koppies loom above the plateau.
Over the years most of these wind pumps have been abandoned and left to deteriorate.
Policy options that may improve the dissemination and use of wind pumps are proposed.
The first wind pump was introduced in the United States by David Hallay in 1854.
A broken wind pump creaks, and a forgotten path runs nowhere into brambles.
On that first day on the water, we turned left at the whitewashed Thurne Dyke wind pump.
More than a century ago, when the heath was broken and enclosed, the reservoir supplied water to drinking troughs, but it is no longer filled by the wind pump and hydraulic rams.
To visit villages that weren't on a river, we drove narrow country lanes -- for instance, from tiny Sea Palling on the coast, south past the vast red Horsey wind pump, to stately Martham, whose Georgian houses range along its village green.
