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webfarmer ([personal profile] webfarmer) wrote2009-05-19 06:12 am
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Scotland Was First!

The first use of of a wind-electric system was in Scotland in the 1880s. I'd previously thought that the first wind-electric was built in Cleveland but Professor James Blyth beat electrical industrialist Charles Brush by a few months and at a far more modest cost. A nice item from The Minnesota Engineer on the state of the art in for wind-electrics in 1896 can be found here.
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