THE WINDMILL
' ♦Pα you want to fouild a windmill without expense, or /the help of -water ■and" eteaim'power? The illustration. shews plainly that we raean only a> pretty, plaything, set in motion by the power of our lungs. •Wei need seiver&l pieces o£ straw such a« are used in summer to suck cooling drinks from a glass. We cut a piece of straw seven inches long-. This Is going to be the tube by which ■we set the mill in motion. Then we cut off two pieces lof straw of equal length (three inches). We split these two. pieces.carefully, with a penknife in four parts (each two inches long), and bend tihe split parts back in: such a way that they stand perpendicularly like spokes of a wheel. We stick j
them, as the -wheel of the -windmill, on a thinner piece of straw (four inches long) in such a way that tke split and bent two parts form a wheel witih eight spokes. After this ■we build a framework of straw, as shown in our illustration. In the middle of this framework we insert tie wheel, after piercing the sides of the frame with a penknife. Behind the wheel we insert a bar of straw, to strengthen the frame, and stick the blowing tube through it and the iba.se of the frame. The illustration shows how to hold the windmill and how it is set in motion.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 173, 22 July 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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