And so the boy built a windmill
Oct 2nd, 2009 by Christine
Now this, this is amazing. It’s a BBC article about what William Kamkwamba did when he was a teenager in Malawi.
Unable to attend school, he kept up his education by using a local library.
Fascinated by science, his life changed one day when he picked up a tattered textbook and saw a picture of a windmill.
And so he
knocked together a turbine from spare bicycle parts, a tractor fan blade and an old shock absorber, and fashioned blades from plastic pipes, flattened by being held over a fire.
And it worked. Here’s the rest of the article.
One of the most inspiring stories I’ve read in a long time. The kind of do-it-yourself ingenuity that used to characterize Americans before “entitlement” became so prevalent.