Windmills

A group dedicated to WINDMILLS!
Any photos, drawings, paintings, or other artwork with at least one windmill in the image.
All mediums are welcome.
No Nudity, please.
Please no more than 1 image a day.

History of windmills reaches back 3700 years, all way to the 2nd millennia BC when Babylonian ruler Hammurabi supposedly unveiled his plans to convert the power of the wind using an automated network of irrigation windmills that would provide water to his land. But his plan was never realized, and historians never found concrete proof that he made any significant headway. More than 1,500 years later Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria captured the power of the wind using a windmill that was part of one of the earliest examples of the musical instrument called the organ. Half a world away in Tibet and China, windmills were used in a much smaller form – the form of prayer wheels.

Modern windmills as we know them today started first appearing around the 8th and 9th centuries in the middle east and Western Asia. Initially popularized by Muslims, windmills soon arrived in India, China, and Europe, where they went through several cycles of incredible innovation. The first examples of Post Mills started being made around the 11th century, with more advanced models of Tower and Smock mills being made in the following centuries. Two countries that were home to the most windmills were England and Netherlands, but many other European countries also adopted windmills and their usefulness.

This group was started on February 23rd, 2023.