Aermotor dealers and families, attending the “Century of Progress” World’s Fair, were allowed to camp in the Aermotor factory yard and eat in the company restaurant. 1933Īermotor 702 was introduced, featuring replaceable bearings and screw-type wheel arms. Other products during this period were gasoline engines and electric generators. Aermotor also built the first electric transmission towers and were designing and building most of the nation’s forest observation towers. This tower was destined to become widely used by the Army Engineer Corps as well as the Coastal and Geodetic Survey for much of the re-mapping of this country. The inner tower provided an undisturbed instrument platform. “Bilby” towers, named for their designer, Jasper Bilby, were introduced. La Verne Noyles dies.Having no direct heirs, he left the Aermotor Company to a tax paying trust, with 48 colleges and universities as beneficiaries. The largest benefactors were University of Chicago and Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, La Verne’s alma mater. These scholarships are still available today.
1918Īermotor’s founder, La Verne Noyes, donated nearly two and one half million dollars to establish scholarships at many colleges and universities for veterans of the World War. This design reduced maintenance to only once a year rather than previous weekly attention. 1915Īermotor introduced its auto-oiled windmill with an enclosed gear case, in which all the working parts were continuously bathed in a light lubricating oil. windmills then sold for about $25 and 20ft. With their revolutionary mass production methods, Aermotor was able to reduce the price of windmills to about 1/6th of the previous price, 8ft. 1904Īermotor catalogs listed a wide range of accessories, such as hand pumps, wood and metal tanks, equipment for power mills, such as feed cutters, power saws, corn shellers and numerous specialty items. Aermotor was on its way to becoming the world’s dominant windmill. It actually would do more than some 12 foot mills. Aermotor guaranteed its 8 foot steel mill to do more work than any 10 foot wooden mill. 1892Īermotor sold 20,000 windmills and the “mathematical” windmill’s image had changed from a joke to a true necessity. In 1892, the one story building in the foreground was built and covered one acre. Aermotor expanded so rapidly the building on the left was added. 1890Īermotor’s first factory, built in the fall of 1890 occupied only the large building on the right.
It also had back gearing which allowed the wheel to make about 3 revolutions for each stroke, resulting in much greater lifting power and smoother pumping action. The new “mathematical” windmill, as it was derisively called by the competitors, embodied all the principles learned from previous experiments. Wind Engine Company had shown no interest in utilizing Perry’s discoveries, Noyes recognized the potential and encouraged him to develop a truly scientific steel windmill. His best test wheel was 87% more efficient than the common wood wheels in use at the time. diameter steel test wheels on a steam driven arm which provided constant artificial wind. These tests had been meticulously conducted indoors under controlled conditions, by mounting 5 ft. Wind Engine Company, of Batavia, Illinois, and had conducted over 5,000 scientific tests on 61 different experimental wind wheels. However, Perry had previously worked for U.S. Perry, a mechanical and civil engineer, to develop a grain binder. LaVerne Noyes, a Chicago manufacturer of dictionary stands and farm equipment, hired Thomas O. We take great pride in that simple fact, and we welcome the opportunity to have you as a customer. There is only one genuine Aermotor windmill. Aermotor Windmill has continuously manufactured windmills since 1888 and is the only windmill manufacturer in the USA. However, one simple truth stands undiminished by time or geography. The History of an American Icon - Aermotor WindmillĪermotor Windmill has a very interesting 118 year business history.
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