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Kansas City

By: Delia C. Gillis

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Kansas City

By: Delia C. Gillis

History of Kansas City's African-American community via vintage photographs.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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ISBN 10

073853448X

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9780738534480

Ancient Textiles

Production, Crafts and Society

By: Marie-Louise Nosch,C. Gillis

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Ancient Textiles

Production, Crafts and Society

By: Marie-Louise Nosch,C. Gillis

An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and frescoes. This volume brings together these two schools to look in more detail at textiles in the ancient world, and is based on a conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Section one, Production and Organisation takes a chronological look through more than four thousand years of history; from Syria in the mid-third millennium BC, to Seventeenth Century Germany. Section two, Crafts and Technology focuses on the relationship between the primary producer (the craftsman) and the secondary receiver (the archaeologist/conservator). The third section, Society, examines the symbolic nature of textiles, and their place within ancient societal groups. Throughout the book emphasis is placed on the universality of textiles, and the importance of information exchange between scholars from different disciplines. A small book on finds First Aid for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles is included as an Appendix.

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789

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Oxbow Books

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ISBN 10

1782974393

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9781782974390

Still Turning

A History of Aermotor Windmills

By: Christopher C. Gillis

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Still Turning

A History of Aermotor Windmills

By: Christopher C. Gillis

The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth’s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company. Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s. Within a decade, the “mathematical windmill” began to dominate the market. Aermotor continued to expand and innovate. The ruggedness and simplicity of the American mechanical windmill has allowed it to outlast many newer water-pumping technologies over the years with minimal maintenance and oversight. Christopher C. Gillis traces this story and more, from the early days of the company to Aermotor’s present-day relevance as it continues to produce its iconic windmills. Still Turning is a significant contribution not only to the history of wind power but also to the history of American enterprise.

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298

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623493366

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9781623493363

Wind Energy Revolution

How the 1970s Energy Crisis Fostered Renewed Interest in Electric-Generating Technology

By: Christopher C. Gillis

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Wind Energy Revolution

How the 1970s Energy Crisis Fostered Renewed Interest in Electric-Generating Technology

By: Christopher C. Gillis

It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating electricity. Not so. Most of these attempts fail, even with the availability of the latest technologies. In Wind Energy Revolution, Christopher C. Gillis Sr. examines the efforts to develop “small” wind generators for use at homes, farms, and ranches following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. Wind machines were once featured prominently on farms and homesteads throughout the Midwest of the United States and Canada during the late 1910s through the early 1950s in areas that had no access to overhead electric-power transmission lines. As a result of rural America’s connection to the power grid, many of these pioneer wind-electric machines fell “victim” to electrical power lines. Interest in wind energy resurfaced in the early 1970s when energy shortages were created by the Arab Oil Embargo, the rise of environmentalism, and the move toward self-sufficient, off-the-grid living. Early wind-electric machines were dusted off and restored back into service, while several former manufacturers reemerged, and entrepreneurs developed new designs. Political and societal interest in renewable energies—wind and solar—began to wane in the early 1980s and did not return until the late 1990s. Even so, the developments in the 1970s influenced how Americans subsequently viewed and used renewable power. Wind Energy Revolution is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive history for historians and anyone interested in wind as a viable renewable resource.

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873

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Texas A&M University Press

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1648430635

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9781648430633

Around the Octagon

A Land and Family History in Skaneateles, New York

By: Marcia C. Gillis

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Around the Octagon

A Land and Family History in Skaneateles, New York

By: Marcia C. Gillis

Marcia Gillis, the former Marcia Chilson, grew up in the house on the corner of Benson and West Lake Road opposite the Octagon School which she attended from 1947-1953.

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137

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0977926400

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9780977926404

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Kansas City

Kansas City

Ancient Textiles

Ancient Textiles

Still Turning

Still Turning

Wind Energy Revolution

Wind Energy Revolution

Around the Octagon

Around the Octagon

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