{"id":8415,"date":"2013-03-31T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2013-03-31T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:30:18","slug":"wind-power-1940s-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/31\/wind-power-1940s-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Power, 1940s style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"smith<\/a>This is how wind turbines were supposed to look, at least in the 1940s. It’s the experimental Smith-Putnam 1.25 MW<\/a> unit than ran for a short while on a hill near Rutland, VT. The picture’s from a rather falling-apart copy of Large Horizontal-axis Wind Turbines<\/a> (Thresher, R. W., & Solar Energy Research Institute. (1982). Large horizontal-axis wind turbines: Proceedings of a workshop held in Cleveland, Ohio, July 28-30, 1981<\/i>. Golden, Colo: Solar Energy Research Institute) that I rescued from Jim<\/a>‘s recycling years ago.<\/p>\n

The first part of these proceedings has a historical review of the Smith-Putnam turbine, including an excerpt from the S. Morgan Smith Company’s house organ on the project. As the rest of the book is pretty much all about the MOD<\/a> series of turbines, it’s of less interest. I’ve scanned the bits about the Smith-Putnam turbine, and put them here: NASA_DOE-1981-large_horizontal_axis_wind_turbines-excerpt<\/a>. If anyone wants the book, let me know. It’s very ratty, but readable.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about this turbine before, but in relation to a packet of crayons<\/a>. More awesome turbine pictures from Paul Gipe: Smith-Putnam Industrial Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is how wind turbines were supposed to look, at least in the 1940s. It’s the experimental Smith-Putnam 1.25 MW unit than ran for a short while on a hill near Rutland, VT. The picture’s from a rather falling-apart copy of Large Horizontal-axis Wind Turbines (Thresher, R. W., & Solar Energy Research Institute. (1982). Large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[2652,2651,1583,765,2650,807,2649,59],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-2652","tag-doe","tag-nasa","tag-pdf","tag-putnam","tag-scan","tag-smith","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}