Rural Americans and Africans have something in common: a shared love of the homestead-sized energy-generating wind turbine. While we grab them from the hardware store, however, these four brothers ...

Miniature models of cars and trains are actually moving, but internal mechanisms are often different from real ones. Wooden miniature model "UGEARS"Has almost the same structure as the real thing, it ...

Jay McGinnis remembers his grandfather telling him stories about working on windmills. His grandfather, J. Mont McGinnis, would go from farm to farm in southern York County, greasing and maintaining ...

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SAN ANGELO, Texas — When Kees Verheul decided at age 62 to leave the comfort of retirement and return to the business world, he chose an unlikely venture: a windmill manufacturing plant. Before he ...