Identifier: stnicholasserial4721dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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to assemble the windmill. One of the gear-wheels is nailed to the endof shaft, L, and then the shaft is insertedthrough the hole in the tower head, V, and inthe floor, ^/^ of the tower. The lower end ofthe shaft fits in a hole bored in the crosspiecc crosspioccs. 7. jhe tail-i)cam serves to holdthe wind-wheel into the wind, and to keep it inplace. Pairs of pegs, U, are driven into theground in a wide circle around the windmilltower. To change the position of the wind-mill, the tail-beam is sprung up from betweena pair of these pegs, and the head is movedaround to any other pair of pegs.
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930 FOR BOYS WHO DO THINGS (Aug., The arms of the windmill must be providedwith sails. These are strips of cloth 9 wideand 3-4 long, with the edges neatly hemmed.They are laid over the front face of thesweeps and are tacked to the arms C. Theyare provided with strings sewed to them attheir outer edges, by which they may be tiedto the pieces E, so as to cover the sweeps ofthe windmill. These sails must be furledwhen we do not wish the wind-wheel to re-volve, that is, they must be rolled up and tiedto the arms C. It will be well to do this everynight, lest a gale arise and wreck our mill. AMERICAN WINDMILL A MORE modern type of windmill is shown inFig. 12. In this case, the tower is much tallerand the wind-wheel is considerably smaller.The tower is 4-0 wide at the bottom and 10wide at the top. It is made of four corner-sticks, A, 8-o long, and 2 wide by i thick.These are connected to a board, B, 10 square,at the top, and are spaced 4-0 apart at thebottom and braced by means of crosspiec

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