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Minister of the Interior (Home Secretary) became interested in the
scheme. La Cour was then granted the financial support of DKK
4 000 for research into the subject of wind energy. No doubt it
helped that he was already known as a highly respected inventor
of telegraph equipment. A new experimental windmill was built
and ready to work in May 1891 in the southern part of the small
village where the Folk High School of Askov
was founded after
the war with the Prussians in 1864.
Figure 4.1
The first experimental mill in Denmark with wooden shutters.
The very first known electricity-producing windmill in the
world was built by Charles F. Brush in 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio.
It was huge—it had many blades and it delivered power to 240
lamps in the owner's house. This system worked for twenty years.
There is no evidence that Poul la Cour knew about the Brush mill
in Cleveland, but its existence must be acknowledged.
Poul la Cour chose the millwright N. J. Poulsen in Esbjerg,
Denmark, to build his new mill. This firm was one of the bigger
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