Windmills
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INRODUCTION TO THE ASBAD
The development or invention of the windmill in the islamic world (modern day Persia) had a significant impact in that it harnessed the wind for human use such as pumping water, and grinding grain. The development of the windmill by the Muslims began around 200 to 100 BCE. The windmill was developed in persia and was used for grinding grain but mainly for pumping water. The windmill (or panemone) were sails connected to a vertical axis. The windmill had a mud or clay like base and walls that would create a chamber to capture the wind. These structures were called asbads.
IMPACT OF THE ASBADS
The asbads could grind grain and pump water much better and faster than a human could and could improve the way they farmed and obtained their water. The windmill impacted the Iranian civilization by pumping water from wells or from place to place therefore using less manual labor. This helped by making water easier to obtain, helping the civilization to flourish. The windmill was adopted by many other civilizations such as the Chinese and the Egyptians. The innovation of the windmill made life easier because you didn't have to go to a well every day and work to bring the water up because the windmill did it for you.
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This image shows how asbads are structured and built
HOW THE ASBADS WORKED
These useful asbads would take the abundant wind energy and use the kinetic energy to pump water in the clay structure below. The inventors of the panemone used its axis to adapt to the climate and the region in which they were in. The asbads were limited only to the direction, power and speed of the wind to work effectively, thus giving them an immediate and unlimited supply of power. Though this version of the windmill was used much before the horizontal axis windmill, and that we don’t use today, it still proved very useful for them.
This resource was very helpfull in that it could tell me how asbads and panemones work. The source gave me insight into how they were used and that they were very usefull.
Also for image-https://explorersweb.com/asbads-the-original-windmills-of-the-middle-east/
This resource was gave me different constructions of different ages of windmills.
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ON WATER PUMPING USING WIND FORCE
This resource told me why they chose to use the windmill
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