Structural drawing of a windmill (2/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie
- REXW-IMG-03-261
- Item
- 1762 (copy)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed the 87 parts enumerated on the drawing and applied the French terms to several of them. For example, "65. le frein, 73. l'auget".
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex