Presents nearly 180 striking images of historic windmills across North America, capturing the wind machines in a wide range of settings and uses and documenting

Traces the history of the use of windmills in the United States and surveys the various types of American windmills

The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines.

Relates the history of the efforts to capture the power of wind for electricity, from the first European windmills to California's wind farms of the late twenti