Dutch windmill poster postcard

This beautiful windmill is the famous Dutch icon of the Netherlands. The windmill is situated in its nice touristic place in the east of Holland, called 'Ommen'. Holland owns many windmills.Beatiful postage with the typical image of Dutch windmills. A windmill is a machine which converts the energy of wind into rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. The main use is for a grinding mill powered by the wind, reducing a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains, by crushing, grinding, or pressing. Windmills have also provided energy to sawmills, paper mills, hammermills, and windpumps for obtaining fresh water from underground or for drainage (especially of land below sea level).