The Eli brand windmill was simple in design, but it was the longest lasting of any made in the day.
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These photos document the factory as it operated in the 1940s when heat, sweat and axel grease mingled as men forged raw materials into working machine parts. Photo credit: Library of Congress.
Step inside the modest, one-story structure on Central Avenue in Nebraska City and you will enter a world that few have experienced; the manufacture of windmills as tools of modern technology circa 1902
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