Jr George Ovitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5580607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jr George Ovitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jr George |
| FAMILY NAME | Ovitt |
| SIGNATURE | OVITT J G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Appropriate Technology
On a sprawling hacienda just outside the southern Nicaraguan coastal town of San Juan del Sur, a lanky North American engineer and machinist named David Parkhurst has established a workshop for repairing windmills. In the 1930s, about 5,000 U.S.-made Chicago Motor Company windmills were constructed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to pump water for livestock. Today, more than half of these windmills are broken, victims of time and the U.S. economic b…
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Appropriate Technology
On a sprawling hacienda just outside the southern Nicaraguan coastal town of San Juan del Sur, a lanky North American engineer and machinist named David Parkhurst has established a workshop for repairing windmills. In the 1930s, about 5,000 U.S.-made Chicago Motor Company windmills were constructed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to pump water for livestock. Today, more than half of these windmills are broken, victims of time and the U.S. economic b…
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