Sunset at the Well

by Priscilla Burgers

Title

Sunset at the Well

Artist

Priscilla Burgers

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Image is of the aermotor windmill and well at Coal Mine Canyon in northeast Arizona, beautifully lit by the setting sun. An interesting idiosyncratic feature in this desert image is a small rowboat. Printing on metal would bring out the glow in this image very effectively.

The Aermotor Windmill Company is an American manufacturer of wind-powered water pumps. The widespread use of their distinctive wind pumps on ranches throughout the arid plains and deserts of the United States has made their design a quintessential image of the American West. La Verne Noyes, founder of Aermotor Windmill Company, had hired engineer Thomas O. Perry for a different job but saw the potential of the all-metal windpump developed by Perry after extensive experiments. The first Aermotor was sold in 1888, with 45 windmills being sold in the first year. Aermotor soon became a strong competitor among its contemporaries, selling over 20,000 of its windmills by 1892. Over the next 30 years Aermotor grew and expanded, introducing accessories and variants on "the mathematical windmill."

La Verne Noyes died in 1919. He left the Aermotor Company to a tax paying trust, with 48 colleges and universities as beneficiaries. In 1918, La Verne Noyes, donated nearly $2.5 Million to establish scholarships for veterans of World War I. 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.

Aermotor continued to innovate and manufacture windmills throughout World War II and helped to produce the top secret Norden bombsight. Besides the production of windmills from 6 to 16 feet tall, Aermotor also produces the towers on which a windmill sits. Four post towers come in steel (ranging from 21 to 60 feet) and wood (from 14 to 37 feet tall). Aermotor also produces and helps in procurement of the pump assembly and drilling.

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