One of the most famous inventions of the dutch are Windmills. A windmill is a structure or machine that converts wind into usable energy through the rotation of a wheel. Windmills are used for different reasons. Some windmills are used for pumping out water out of “polders” also known as wetlands and then putting this water back into rivers beyond the dikes. These lands can now be used as farmland and can grow crops. Another way a windmill can be used is to grind grain. In the netherlands now we have about 1000 windmills. This helps for the goldenness in the netherlands because we can now empty some lakes and replace it will farmland. This will then give us more crops (corn and grain etc.) After we emptied the lakes and replaced it will make …show more content…
Some longer, more bigger in width and higher. It depends on the place it is made for. There are dikes that hold back the water of the sea and the major rivers. Those are called primary dikes. Along major rivers lie summer dikes. In winter the water is often so high that it is beyond the summer dikes. Therefore, some dikes are higher than others. The land between the dikes called floodplains.
The Netherlands dike network extends for over 22,000 kilometres. Below is a detailed dike map.
Fluyt
The Fluyt ( translated: fluit ) is a secret weapon of the dutch. A classic three-masted, square-rigged merchant ship. It has a wide, balloon-like hull rounding at the stern and bow and a very narrow, high stern. The Dutch imported relatively cheap wood and tried to mass produce as many parts of the ship as possible in a short amount of time.
It is a ship they use for the WOC. This ship was build by dutch shipbuilders and this gave them an big advantage with trading. The ship had an advantage because this ship can go faster than normal ships because they removed some weapons such as canons that make the boat a lot heavier, so it goes slower. This did make the chance higher of attacks. Also this boat can carry a large cargo and only needs a small crew and is easy to build. This ship is not build as a warship and certainly not protected against