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WWEAwebinar in collaboration with the Mills Archive Trust:
The History of Wind Power: From its Early Beginnings to the Present Day 

The webinar, co-hosted by WWEA and the Mills Archive Trust, presents the history of wind power starting in 1883 until today.

Humankind learned how to use the energy from wind for milling, pumping etc, centuries or even thousands of years ago, and, in the age of electrification, started to generate electricity from wind mills in the late 19th century - according to today’s knowledge starting in Vienna in 1883.

After a number of pioneers made basic inventions until the first World War, the time between the two World Wars saw the first industrial and systematic scientific activities. Although in some parts of the world, wind was used as electricity sources in the post-war period, the big breakthrough came in the time of the oil crisis, hand in hand with an emerging environmental awareness. 

Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqLxUcvIRu4

Speakers: 

• Elizabeth Bartram, Mills Archive Trust: The early pioneers – from 1883 to the first World War
• Jan Oelker, journalist: First industrial developments in a period of Wars 
• Arne Jaeger, German Windpower Museum: Wind power becoming of age – from the 1970s until today 
• Intervention by Kolya Abramsky, WWEA: How to preserve the wind power history

Moderator: Stefan Gsänger, WWEA Secretary General