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Conference Paper

Author
Baker, Keith
Title
From aesthetics to function, history to rarity: the significance of windmills
In
19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply
Editors
Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia
Imprint
Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2017, pp. 20-35
ISBN/ISSN
9781922107923
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.383906497839415
Subject
History of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology
Abstract

Windmills have operated across the world for centuries and have served a range purposes from pumping water, grinding grain, sawing wood, chopping hay and in more recent times for generating electricity. When applied to pumping water, the widespread use of windmills in rural Australia for stock and domestic water supply contrasts markedly with the use of wind power to reclaim swampland and change the landscape in Europe.

Across the world people have a strong attachment to windmills. In Australia the Register of the National Estate contained six places with significant windmills, while most state heritage registers contain a number. Engineering Heritage Australia (EHA) has recognised only one, although others have been featured in conference papers.

Heritage organisations, including EHA, have a range of criteria for determining the significance of works to be recognised. The paper illustrates each criterion adopted by EHA for its Heritage Recognition Program with examples of windmills. It demonstrates that there are equally valid ways of approaching conservation of windmills with very different outcomes.

Source
cohn 2018

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