Touching

The touching story of wind power rush to generate electricity

This book takes readers on a journey through the history of wind power in order to show how the technology evolved over the course of the twentieth century and where it may be headed in the twenty-first century. . The first wind turbine used for the production of electricity was built in Scotland in July 1887 by Prof James Blyth of Anderson"s College, Glasgow (the precursor of the University of Strathclyde). Blyth"s 10 m high, cloth-sailed wind turbine was installed in the garden of his holiday cottage at. . People used wind energy to propel boats along the Nile River as early as 5,000 BC. . Humans have harnessed wind power for thousands of years.