Beckmann ("History of Inventions") ie of opinion that windmills were invented in Europe, and not in the East; and he rejects as unfounded, a statement by Pomponius Sabinus, who flourished in the loth century, that the Romans used such machines. ** erw ,Vl£ was probably the country; and the 1 century the period of their origin.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 5
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