From afar, this looked like just an Australian windmill, but it’s not. Commercialised by Auguste Bollée at the end of the 19th century, according to the invention of Ernest-Sylvain Bollée (1814-1891) patented in 1868, the Éolienne Bollée is an unusual wind turbine, unique for having a stator and a rotor, like a water turbine A further patent dated 1885 differed mainly in …