The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company.
Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s....