Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- 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
- 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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- 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2017), 536 pp. Details