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Marvels at Holland's amazing land reclamation engineering. Cruquius engine, Netherlands model, wooden post mill model with scoop wheel, early drainage, Wicken Fen, tjasker mill model, Archimedean screw model, 'de Valk' windmill in Leiden, beam engine by John Cockerill used for drainage at Arkelse Dam, model horizontal engine with scoop wheel by Mr. A.M.W.Hoos in the Cruquius Museum, windmill technology, early steam pumping, how a polder worked, the Haarlemmermeer, Cruquius engine, dyke construction and maintenance, engine and centrifugal pump by J.& H.Gwynne, Adrian Strik, some other places to visit, polder landscape, Keukenhof's windmill, musical engineering - Dutch street organ at Keukenhof, Haarlem station, reference |