This book was written long before modern Wind turbines started popping up all over the place. It should be mandatory reading for everyone who advocates these machines. This book explains one vital thing; the way of life of living with wind power. The miller, the person using the power, lived and worked around the machine, and lived and worked by the wind. It is something we have utterly lost in the past hundred years. We expect to press a button, and the electricity is simply there. We have no idea where it comes from, or how it is made. These old millers would shake their heads in disbelief at the way we are trying to use wind power; our expectations of using it, utterly disconnected from the available wind that made it. It is a workmanlike book; with workmanlike pictures, of a workmanlike way of life. If you want to know how to use wind power, this book will tell how it was done. It allows you to understand where our modern wind turbines are so wasted. The old boys who built these m