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Prévost, Benoît-Louis (1747-1804), engraver With digital objects
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Structural drawing of a windmill (1/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie

Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed various English technical terms and given their meaning in French, "Teeth = aluchon, Neck irons = allumelles de fer, bearings = collets, wedges = clés, pins [(....)] = juseaux, [.....], bedstone = gissante".

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex