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A very striking photograph of an eclipse windmill from the cover of T. Lindsay Baker's American Windmills (reprint edition, 2012)
In 1889 about 77 windmill factories scattered across the United States employed about 1,100 workers. They sold water-pumping windmills to railroads, who needed water for their steam locomotives, and to farmers, to pump water for their animals.