FATIMA. GEARING OF A TRADITIONAL PORTUGUESE WINDMILL

Of gear, on the ground floor, several savory, through the circular or square, fixed holes of the millstones, landings, allow the rotation of the grinding wheels moving, moving, or andadeiras. The rotation is proportional to the force applied by the wind, that is not uniform. Of grain from the hopper slide under gravity at chamadouro until the eye of the millstone, where they are crushed. The flour accumulates in the hopper under gravity action, is deposited in appropriate containers, on the ground floor. Thanks to Mr. Adrian Craveiro, now deceased.

Vasco Jorge Rosa da Silva, Georg Schmidt, is a researcher in Local and Regional History, History of Science in Portugal [astronomy], Military History and History of Portuguese Limestone Massif, which includes the Natural Park of Sierra of Air and Lamps. Responsible for reading and transcription paleographic, unpublished, of "Memories of Ourém Parish", 1758. Finishing a doctoral dissertation on the "History of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra: 1772-1910". He is also friend of Federal Republic of Germany, FRG.

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