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October 26, 1724.—A patent was granted to John Brent on Oct. 26, 1724, for “a wind engine or machine which would be useful in occasioning motion to all sorts of mill-work and for divers other uses and purposes, far exceeding all wind engines hitherto practised, whose fanes move horizontally and are so disposed as to work with the wind blowing from any point of the compass without turning or altering the position of the engine, the like of which had never been used or exercised in any of our dominions”. This appears to be the first patent for a windmill with horizontal vanes.
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Calendar of Patent Records. Nature 124, 673 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124673b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124673b0