Once widespread across Europe and many other lands, they used to grind all the grain into flour, provide power to sawmills, make paper and more.
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Turning harvested and threshed grain into food required it to be crushed into flour in mills, powered either by wind or water.
A river cruise starting with JMW Turner at Maidenhead in the Berkshire countryside, and ending with Whistler at Battersea Bridge.
Paintings of windmills from Hieronymus Bosch, Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Thomas Girtin, and others.
The Eclectic Light Company 