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I, No. 1 (Winter 1982): Special Eclipse issue; "History of the Eclipse Windmill and Its Production;" "The Paint Formula for Eclipse (Cow Patty) Green;" "1882 Price List for 'Eclipse' Windmills;" "24 Reasons Why [to Buy an "Eclipse" Windmill];" "The American Windmill (1904);" "Why Would Anyone Want to Start a Windmill Newspaper Anyway?"
I, No. 2 (Spring 1982): "Manufacturers' Trade Literature: The Key to Windmill Restoration;" "Fairbanks, Morse and Company to Historian Walter Prescott Webb on 15 July 1927;" "Gazette Pulls Its Own Weight;" "review of The Homemade Windmills of Nebraska, (1899); rpt,. ed., [ca. 1978]).
I, No. 3 (Summer 1982): Special "Star" Issue; "Product History of the Flint & Walling Line of Windmills;" "Our Contemporaries;" "A Letter from Central Texas to the U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Company;" "Something About the Goods Made in the Mammoth Plant at Kendallville--1896."
I, No. 4 (Autumn 1982): Special windmill waterworks issue; "Windmill Waterworks of America in 1889;" "The Windmill Waterworks of McPherson, Kansas;" "The Post City Windmill Waterworks;" "The Windmill Man's Code;" "A Fine Country If...;" "Musings atop a Windmill Tower--1904;" "My Enjoyment of Wind Engines;" "Recollections of Windmill Selling in the 1860s."
II, No. 1 (Winter 1983): Special issue on Daniel Halladay and the "U.S." windmills; "The History of the U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co. as Written in 1887;" "A Product History of the U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Company;" "A Visit to Daniel Halladay's Town;" "I'm Back;" "Historic 'Currie' Patterns Donated to Museum."
II, No. 2 (Spring 1983): "The Story of the Railroad Eclipse;" "Correspondence: J.B. Buchanan and His Lifelong Love for Windmills;" "How to Replace Babbitt Windmill Bearings."
II, No. 3 (Summer 1983): Special "Challenge" issue; "Challenge Line of Windmills;" "The 'Challenge' Exhibit at the 1893 World's Fair;" "Replacing Babbitt-Seated Roller Bearings for Windmills."
II, No. 4 (Autumn 1983): "The 'Other Dempster:' The Dempster Manufacturing Company of Des Moines;" "Cutting Rims for Wooden Windmill Wheels;" review of The New Alchemy Water Pumping Windmill Book; "Verbal Eruptions from the Publisher."
III, No. 1 (Winter 1984): "Windmill Towers in Their Infinite Variety;" "Kansas Wind Power in 1850;" "Care of Windmills (1918);" "Our Contemporaries;" "Woods Used in the Manufacture of Historic Windmills;" "Well Drilling on the Plains in the 1880s."
III, No. 2 (Spring 1984): Special issue on "The Monitor Line" of windmills from the Baker Manufacturing Company; "A Product History of the Baker Manufacturing Company;" "Who Made the Standard?;" "Windmills for Refrigeration;" "How to Rawhide a Wooden Windmill Wheel;" review of Windmills and Pumps of the Southwest; "A Satisfied 'Monitor' Dealer in 1900." III, No. 3 (Summer 1984): "The Large Diameter Windmills;" "How to Splice Repairs in Wooden Tower Legs;" "Prairie Monuments;" "Notes & Queries;" "Pioneer Mills of the Industry: 'Leffel Iron Wind Engine;'" review of Well-Drilling Methods.
III, No. 4 (Autumn 1984): "The Stover Manufacturing Company and Its Windmills;" "The Whitchurch Wind Engine;" "Anchors for Windmill Towers;" "1899 Picnic of the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company;" "Drilling Water Wells by Hand in 1900."
IV, No. 1 (Winter 1985): Special issue on the windmills of Kansas; "Windmill Manufacturers of Kansas;" "The Currie: 'The Poor Man's Windmill;'" "Annual Lubrication for Self-Oiling Windmills;" "Inventions Wanted in Texas: A Letter from 1860;" review of The Windmill: Its Efficiency and Economic Use.
IV, No. 2 (Spring 1985): Special issue on the windmills of the Great Depression; "New Deal Specials: Bargain Windmills of the Depression Era;" "Windmill Economy (1932);" "Getting into the Windmill Business During Hard Times;" "American Windmills in South Africa;" "Windmill Memorabilia;" "A Few Words to the Readers;" "My Jackie Boy Who Died in '44."
IV, No. 3 (Summer 1985): "Those Magnificent Multiple-Wheel Windmills;" "'Rungs Are for Feet:' A Few Comments on Tower Safety;" review of Range Water Pumping Systems: State-of-the-Art Review.
IV, No. 4 (Autumn 1985): "Freeze-Proofing Windmills in Moderate Climates;" "'Twin Wheel' Windmills with Single Wheels;" "The Bollée Wind Engines;" "Windmill Memorabilia;" "Windmill Hosts Snake;" "Raising Burros, Cows, and Windmills;" "I Am the Windmill," review of Homestead Windmills.
V, No. 1 (Winter 1986): Special "Aermotor" issue; "A Product History of Aermotor Windmills;" "The Birth of the Aermotor;" "The Czar of All the Windmill Business;" "The Argentine Aermotors;" "The Complex Story of Aermotor Corporate Ownership;" "Freeze-Proofing Windmills in Severe Climates."
V, No. 2 (Spring 1986): "The Windmills of Sears, Roebuck and Company;" "The 'Winchargers.'"
V, No. 3 (Summer 1986): "'Eli' and the Kregel Windmill Company;" "Building Steel Towers Up from the Ground;" "Windmilling in the Arizona Desert Half a Century Ago;" review of Windmills and Wind Motors: How to Build and Run Them.
V, No. 4 (Autumn 1986): "The 'Woodmanse Solid Wheel' Windmill;" "Raising Fully Assembled Windmill Towers;" "Correction" on previous issue article on "Eli" windmills; review of Windmills of the World.
VI, No. 1 (Winter 1987): Special issue on power windmills; "Power Windmills;" "Halladay & Wheeler's Patent Windmill;" "How to Build a Homemade 'Steel Drum' Tank Heater."
VI, No. 2 (Spring 1987): Special issue on windmills from Michigan; "A Review of Michigan Windmill Manufacturers;" "From Windmills to Air Rifles: The Story of the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company;" "Putting Up Big Mills;" "Correspondence."
VI, No. 3 (Summer 1987): "Duplex Windmills of Superior, Wisconsin;" "D.H. Bausman's Pennsylvania-Made Windmills;" "Alfred R. Wolff: Windmill Authority of Victorian America."
VI, No. 4 (Autumn 1987): "Windmills and the Union Pacific Railroad;" "How to Build a Wooden Windmill Tower;" "The Wind-Mill of To-Day and Its Uses (1884);" "Gazette Offices Move."
VII, No. 1 (Winter 1988): "Iron Turbine;" "Steel Windmills Versus Wooden: A War of Words;" "Raising Wooden Windmill Towers;" "Correction."
VII, No. 2 (Spring 1988): Special issue on the windmills of Canada; "'As Good as a Hired Man:' A Product History of Canadian-Made Windmills;" "'We Naturally Take Exception:' The Story of the 'Canadian Imperial' Windmill."
VII, No. 3 (Summer 1988): "The 'Monitor' That Nothing Seems to Fit: The 'Monitor AC;'" "Windmill Irrigation in Kansas;" review of Wells and Windmills in Nebraska (1899; rpt. ed., [ca. 1987]).
VII, No. 4 (Autumn 1988): "Ornamental Windmill Towers;" "Windmill Pumping Molasses;" "Windmill Irrigators Speak."
VIII, No. 1 (Winter 1989): "'Snow' Windmills;" "A Windmiller's Reward;" "How to Use a Gin Pole in Installing Windmills;" review of Harvesting the Air: Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England.
VIII, No. 2 (Spring 1989): Special issue on steel vaneless windmills; "Steel Vaneless Windmills;" "Powell and Douglas: Pioneer Windmill Makers of Waukegan, Illinois;" review of Experiments with Windmills; "The Stolen Windmill."
VIII, No. 3 (Summer 1989): "Unusually Tall Windmill Towers;" "A Very High Windmill (1894);" "The 'Baker' Wind Engines;" "How to Build a Steel Drum Windmill;" "A New Deal Special: Truman Chandler's Homemade Steel Drum Windmill;" "To Remove Cotter Pins."
VIII, No. 4 (Autumn 1989): "Windmills with Variable-Pitch Blades;" "Windmills with Varying Pitch Blades;" "International Windmillers' Trade Fair."
IX, No. 1 (Winter 1990): Special issue on windmills vs. gas engines; "'As Old as the Hills and Just as Stationary:' The Battle between Windmills and Portable Gas Engines;" "Windmills and Gasoline Engines for Pumping Water: The View in 1903;" "Bilge Pumping by Wind Power;" "A Sad Story with a Real Moral: Do Not Work on Windmills Alone."
IX, No. 2 (Spring 1990): "Mail-Order Windmills: A Product History of Windmills Distributed by Montgomery Ward and Company;" "A Windmill or Two;" "International Windmillers' Trade Fair;" "How to Keep Nuts Tight."
IX, No. 3 (Summer 1990): "The 'Stover Solid Wheel' Windmill: The Ancestor of the Stover Line;" "Winger's Ratchet Feed Mill: A Success in Ingenuity;" "'Splitting the Sheet' in 1878: The Dissolution of a Windmill Partnership;" "Housekeeping with the Wind."
IX, No. 4 (Autumn 1990): "Windmills from Waupun: A Product History of the Althouse-Wheeler Company;" "John D. Rockefeller's Windmill."
X, No. 1 (Winter 1991): "The Coming of the 'Samson;'" "Tank Heaters for Stock Watering;" "Stock-Watering Places on Western Grazing Lands (1914)."
X, No. 2 (Spring 1991): Special issue on miniature windmills; "The World of Miniature Windmills;" "'It Paid for Itself in New Business:' The 'Midget Wonder' Windmill;" "Tiny Cousins of the Big Mills: Yard Windmills Made by the Main Line Windmill Manufacturers;" "Windmill Salesmen's Sample Models;" "Windmill Patent Models;" "Toy Windmills Just for Fun."
X, No. 3 (Summer 1991): "Back-Geared Deep-Well Pump Jacks;" "Remembrances of an Elgin Windmill Man;" "More Remembrances of Elgin."
X, No. 4 (Autumn 1991): "'The Goods We Make:' Products Other Than Windmills Made by Windmill Manufacturers;" "The Greatest Windmill Competition Ever Held: The 1903 Wind Engine Trials of the Royal Agricultural Society of England;" "Wind Electric News: The Papers of Oliver P. Fritchle."
XI, No. 1 (Winter 1992): "The Last of the 'Fairbanks-Morse' Windmills;" "How to Size a Windmill for Pumping."
XI, No. 2 (Spring 1992): "The Next Time We Strike: The Windmill Strike of 1903;" "Windmill Vanes as an Advertising Medium;" "A Self-Propelled Well-Drilling Rig;" "What Kind of Windmill Is Best?"
XI, No. 3 (Summer 1992): "Aermotor Windmill Towers."
XI, No. 4 (Autumn 1992): "An Overview of Bearings on American Windmills: Part I;" "'It Was a Dirty Place to Work:' Memories from the Foundry Floor at the Challenge Company."
XII, No. 1 (Winter 1993): "An Overview of Bearings on American Windmills: Part II;" "Killed by a Windmill;" "Windmills and the 1893 World's Fair."
XII, No. 2 (Spring 1993): "An Overview of Bearings on American Windmills: Part III;" "The 'U.S.' Windmills at the 1893 World's Fair;" "FIASA Moves Closer to Marketplace."
XII, No. 3 (Summer 1993): "'For the Duration:' American Windmills During World War II;" "Industrial Sabotage in 1893: The Incident at the World's Fair." XII, No. 4 (Autumn 1993): "The 'Aermotor Man' and His Haying Tools;" "'The Place to Go for Old Windmills:' The International Windmillers' Trade Fair;" "A Magnificent Show: 'Challenge' Windmills at the 1893 World's Fair."
XIII, No. 1 (Winter 1994): "Windmills from Fairbury: A Product History of the Fairbury Windmill Company;" "'Tin Shop' Memories from Fairbury Windmill Company;" "'Fairbury' by Any Other Name: Contract Windmills from the Fairbury Windmill Co."
XIII, No. 2 (Spring 1994): "Self-Oiling Wooden-Wheel Windmills;" "Four New Windmill Museums."
XIII, No. 3 (Summer 1994): "Any Squeak or Grind: The Lubrication of American Windmills."
XIII, No. 4 (Autumn 1994): "'New Ideal:' The Most Common Canadian Power Windmill," "Bill McCook: Windmiller of the World;" review of Windpumps: A Guide for Development Workers, Windmills and Windmill Weights, and Wind Power for Home & Business: Renewable Energy for the 1990s and Beyond. XIV, No. 1 (Winter 1995): "Pioneer Metal Windmills of the Plains: The Kirkwood Iron Wind Engine;" "Kregel Windmill Company Papers Find Archival Home."
XIV, No. 2 (Spring 1995): "Windmills and Tankhouses: Partners in Rural Water Supply;" "Directions for Setting Circular Tanks;" "Wind Power Short Course in England."
XIV, No. 3 (Summer 1995): "Survey of Windmill Regulators: Part I."
XIV, No. 4 (Autumn 1995): "Survey of Windmill Regulators: Part II;" "Windmill Counterbalancing;" "Spring Counterbalancing 100 Years Ago."
XV, No. 1 (Winter 1996): "Windmill Advertising Covers;" "A Remarkable Windmill Discovery in England."
XV, No. 2 (Spring 1996): "A Short Historical Account of South African Windpumps;" "Windmills in South Africa in 1898: The U.S. Consul General Reports;" "Profile of a Windmill Man: Carl Boyd of Burdick & Burdick Co."
XV, No. 3 (Summer 1996): "American Windmills on Postage Stamps;" "Windmill Tower Hinges;" "The 1894 Aermotor Windmill Essay Contest;" reviews of Wind Energy in America: A History and De Windmotor als Poldergemaal in Friesland [The Wind Engine in Polder Drainage in Friesland].
XV, No. 4 (Autumn 1996): "'Turning Fair to the Wind:' An Occupational Vocabulary of Windmilling;" "Windmills of the Presidents."
XVI, No. 1 (Winter 1997): "Tilting Windmill Towers;" "The Windmill Business Seen from the Inside: The Customer Note Files of B.H. Burdick, Sr.;" "reviews of Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology and The Fundamentals of Wind-Driven Water Pumpers; "What Is Molinology?"
XVI, No. 2 (Spring 1997): "Windmill Insurance: Protection in the Past;" "A Product History of the Goodhue Windmills;" "Billie Wolfe: First Lady of American Windmills."
XVI, No. 3 (Summer 1997): "The Dandy Windmill;" "Making Collections During Hard Times;" "May the Lord Help to Get This Squared Up."
XVI, No. 4 (Autumn 1997): "Prefabricated Windmill Towers from the Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company;" "An Exciting British Wind Farm;" "1937 Description of the 'Star Zephyr Model 37' Windmill."
XVII, No. 1 (Winter 1998): "An American Power Windmill in the Czech Republic;" "A Most Unusual Vaneless Windmill;" "A Tribute to Garnet Brooks;" "Prefabricated Towers for Perkins Windmills."
XVII, No. 2 (Spring 1998): "The 'Woodmanse Oil-Bath' Windmills;" "The Polar Wind Machines: The Wind Generator on the Fram During Nansen's 1893-96 Arctic Expedition;" "A Double Rotary Toy Windmill;" "'Windmills' Just for Fun."
XVII, No. 3 (Summer 1998): "Prefabricated Windmill Towers from Baker Manufacturing Company;" "Mid-America Windmill Museums Opens at Kendallville, Indiana;" "New Guide to Windmill Trade Literature Being Published."
XVII, No. 4 (Autumn 1998): "'Gingerbread' Trim for Platforms on Wooden Windmill Towers;" "American Wind Power Center Opens in Lubbock, Texas;" "The Coming of Windmills to Yucatan;" reviews of Windpumps in South Africa and Windmills of the World.
XVIII, No. 1 (Winter 1999): "An Overview of Horizontal Windmills;" "Trying to 'Sell' a Windmill Patent in the 1840s."
XVIII, No. 2 (Spring 1999): "Prefabricated Windmill Towers from Fairbanks, Morse and Company;" "Verses from the Windmill Factory;" "What Young Stubbornness Can Accomplish, a Remembrance from Gene Kelsey."
XVIII, No. 3 (Summer 1999): "A History of the 17-Inch Windmill," by Norman H. Marks; "Interchangeable Wheels and Vanes for Open-Geared and Oil-Bath Steel Windmills."
XVIII, No. 4 (Autumn 1999): "'Easy to Have Running Water Like City Folks:' Windmills and Pressurized Water Supply Systems;" "Windmill Company Poetry: Verses for Selling Windmills."
XIX, No. 1 (Winter 2000): "A Product History of the Red Star and Red Cross Windmills;" "The 'Stars' Still Shine: The Legal Battle Over the 'Star' Windmill Trademark;" "The Great Shelford Wind Engine, Cambridge, England," by J. Kenneth Major.
XIX, No. 2 (Spring 2000): "Windmills for Pumping Oil;" "'Posed with the Windmill:' Windmills Used in Composition of Historic Photographs;" "Prefabricated Steel Towers for 'Fairbury' Windmills."
XIX, No. 3 (Summer 2000): "Hard Times and Hard Feelings: The Untold Story of the Early 'Eclipse' Windmills;" "How to Identify Pre- and Post-1888 Eclipse Windmills;" "Prairie Home," by LeRoy Schmidt.
XIX, No. 4 (Autumn 2002): "Prefabricated Windmill Towers from the Challenge Company;" "The Windmill Collection at the Fred Turner Museum, Loeriesfontein, South Africa," by Norman H. Marks.
XX, No. 1 (Winter 2001): "The Fairbury No. 7 Windmill: The Pride of the Fairbury Line;" "The Old Windmill" by Stan Paregien, Sr.; "Farm Maxims and Bits of Wisdom from the Challenge Company, ca. 1920."
XX, No. 2 (Spring 2001): "'The Eclipse Copies:' Eclipse-Style Windmills Made by Firms Other Than Fairbanks, Morse & Co.;" "South African Folk Art Miniature Windmills."
XX, No. 3 (Summer 2001): "Fred W. Axtell and the Early Days of the Axtell Company;" "Windmill News from Beatrice: Reports from the Early Years of Dempster News;" "A Wind Engine Study Tour in France," by J. Kenneth Major.
XX, No. 4 (Autumn 2001): "The 'Railroad Eclipse Copies:' Railroad Eclipse-Style Windmills Made by Firms Other Than Fairbanks-Morse & Co."
XXI, No. 1 (Winter 2002): "'The Wireless Means Life Itself:' The Wind Generator and Radio on the 1937 Russian North Pole Expedition;" "Where Do We Find Antique Windmill Interest."
XXI, No. 2 (Spring 2002): "Windmill Tools," by Homer C. Beck; "The San Francisco Dutch Windmills."
XXI, No. 3 (Summer 2002): "Oil-Bath Windmills Made by Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company."
XXI, No. 4 (Autumn 2002): "The Windmills of Boston: Boston, Massachusetts, as a Windmill Distributing Center;" "The Windmill that 'Pumps' by the Bucketful: The Lowell Bucket Windmill."
XXII, No. 1 (Winter 2003): "Windmills and Towers of the Temple Pump Company;" "Harley Stroven (1921-2002): Patriarch of American Windmill Preservation."
XXII, No. 2 (Spring 2003): "The Open-Geared Woodmanse Steel Windmills: 'Strong Where Strength Is Needed;'" "J.B. Buchanan (1906-2003): Windmiller Who Showed the Way for Others;" "A Lifelong Love of Windmills," by J.B. Buchanan.
XXII, No. 3 (Summer 2003): "A Product History of Windmills from the Butler Company, Butler, Indiana;" "Butler Windmills in a Windstorm."
XXII, No. 4 (Autumn 2003): "'Every Farmer His Own Miller:' The Use of Power Windmills;" "What a Power Aermotor Does and Does Not Do;" review of Wind Power in View: Energy Landscapes in a Crowded World.

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