Moinhos e Azenhas de Portugal

£18.00

English title: Wind and Watermills of Portugal

Portuguese (main text)

Card cover, 130pp., with b/w photographs, sketches and diagrams.

This book provides a detailed history and description of the development of milling technology, windmills and watermills in Portugal.
Section headings (taken from the English translation): Foreword; A short historical survey; Hand mills and moinholas; Atafona (oxen driven machine); Watermills; Ladle-wheels; Penstocks and shutters; Submersion mills; Tide mills; Vertical wheel watermills; Undershot wheel mills; Overshot vertical wheel mills; Windmills; Tower mills; Windmills with wooden towers; Tower mills of two ‘bridges’; Windmills of the Beira Baixa and Alto Alentejo; Revolving mills; Wooden frame work mills; Windmills in the Azores and in Porto Santo; Grinding machinery; Final remarks; Bibliography.

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