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- The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the first century is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.
- Another early example of a wind-driven wheel was the prayer wheel, which has been used in Tibet and China since the fourth century.
- It has been claimed that the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi planned to use wind power for his ambitious irrigation project in the seventeenth century BCE.
It is not really possible to determine when windmills were first invented, but from the above examples we can see that the technology has well understood thousands of years ago.
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The first windmill was built by Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century (AD). Windmills, were used in the Islamic civilization as early as the 7th century, to grind grains and for irrigation purposes. The great tenth century Arab Historian and Geographer Al-Masudi(896-956), has mentioned the existence of windmills in Seistan in 950 AD. Windmills appeared in Europe, in the 12th century. Windmills were invented in Persia long ago during A.D. 600. They were first invented for grinding grain but then discovered to be useful for more, centuries later. Many people get credit for the invention of the windmill because they used it and made it for different reasons. That's why some windmills are horizontal and vertical.
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