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How I built a windmill

William Kamkwamba · TED

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About

When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2007
Speaker
William Kamkwamba
Year
2007
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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