International Molinology
Bulletin of The International
Molinological Society
No. 59 December 1999 / summary -
résumé
Original Papers
- Report on the TIMS Excursion in the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik
by Milica Vernon and Bill Bignell
A report on the mid-term excursion, which took place between the 31st May and the
7th June 1999, set out to provide a flavour of the mills in the former Deutsche
Demokratische Republik (the former East Germany), and this is certainly achieved. Our
principal guide, Erhard Jahn, used his wide knowledge of East German Mills and the fruits
of the research of his books to draw up a demanding itinerary for the tour.
The group in front of the post mill at Wolmirstedt
7 pages an many pictures
- Noria Technology in Mexico - Against the Current and Against the Odds
by William E. Doolittle Getting water to lands that would
otherwise be too dry for agriculture is a problem that has confronted farmers since the
beginnings of agriculture itself. One method of raising water from either rivers or wells
to field surfaces is by means of a noria, a vertically-oriented wheel with buckets
attached. As the wheel turns, the buckets dip into the water source at the wheel's bottom
and empty into a trough into a pipe or a canal to fields nearby. Norias were introduced to
Mexico in Spanish colonial times and used in some parts of the country for centuries. In
recent decades, however, almost all have been abandoned for reasons that remain unclear.
One group of farmers in Veracruz, Mexico, however, is contradicting the trend and is
reverting back to using the traditional technology of the noria. This paper describes the
fruit of their endeavours, and discusses its implications.
6 pages and pictures
- Mills in XVI Century Spain
by Javier Goicolea - a brief introduction with a lot of illustrations. 3
pages
- Victoria Windmill near the Texas Coast of the Gulf of Mexico
by Yolt IJzerman
As European immigrants settled in Texas, the establishment of
communities and farms was limited to areas where a constant water supply was available.
The first gristmills in Texas were dependent upon water as an energy source. The first
windmills in Texas were erected by German and Dutch immigrants and was designed to pump
water. One notable exception, however, was a nineteenth century tower-type European
windmill, built near the southern coastal community of Victoria.
6 pages and pictures
Communications
- The Horizontal Windmills of Andros, Monuments of Vernacular Technology with
Special Characteristics and Method of Operation
by George Speis
- A look at the mills in Arcadia, Southern Greece
by Alan F. Gifford
- Medieval Molinological Artifacts in Reading, England
by J. Kenneth Major
- Modern Wind Generators - a short Review
by Agnar Moltke
- Mills seen in Vietnam
Chris Gibbings
- Traditional Water Power in the North of Spain: A Response
by Nicolas Garcia Tapia
- More on Horse-powered Ferries
by Michael Harverson
- Boat Mills: New Pictorial Evidence Part IV
The Boat Mills on the Sava River
- A Windmill in Ireland
- A New Mill Organization: The Spanish Mill Society
- Windmills in Unexpected Places: Egypt - Alexandria
- other subjects
* Book Reviews
* Video Review: Scythmill"
* New TIMS Publications and TIMS Finances
* Notice of the General Meeting
* TIMS Council Elections
* 11th TIMS Symposium, 2004: Guidelines for the invitation.
* Obituary: Dick Nijhof + 29. Aug. 1999
- TIMS Dictionary of Molinology
The systematic part of the dictionary contains about 4,000 entries in the four
languages English, German, French and Dutch. Drafts of all chapters have already been
prepared. The compilation and correction of these drafts is in the task of a working group
of representants for the four languages, supported by contributing experts for some
sections. For many reasons the compilation of the dictionary takes more time than planned
and requires the efforts and united strength of all collaborators. It cannot be ready for
the 10th symposium in September 2000 in the USA. However, the working group hopes to
finish the extensive and important chapter on windmills by this time.
Search for missing terms: A call to TIMS members for special or
regional mill types. Equivalents of terms are not easily at hand or found in the
literature. Actually, the main difficulties concern some missing terms in German for the
windmill chapter, e.g. terms of the paltrock mill. Any help and support in the compilation
of the TIMS Dictionary of Molinology would be very much appriciated.
Please contact:
Berthold Moog
Bollwerkstrasse 74, CH - 4102 Binningen (Switzerland)
Phone: +41-61 - 421 0620
This summary of the 59th Bulletin of The International Molinological Society
has been prepared be Gerald Bost, Berlin -May 2000. The complete printed version can be
ordered from TIMS Publication Officer:
Leo van der Drift
Groothertoginnelaan 174 b/c
NL-2517 EV Den Haag
The Netherlands
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