1. The wind power story / Ross Jackson -- 2. Forty years of wind energy development / Jos Beurskens -- 3. History of Danish wind power / Benny Christensen -- 4. The aerodynamic research on windmill sails of Poul la Cour, 1896-1900 / Povl-Otto Nissen -- 5. Networks of wind energy enthusiasts and the development of the "Danish concept" / Katherine Dykes -- 6. Danish pioneering of modern wind power / Niels I. Meyer -- 7. From energy crisis to industrial adventure : a chronicle / Preben Maegaard -- ¿kr̆ Vind energi : standard blades for the early wind industry / Erik Grove-Nielsen -- 9. From Herborg blacksmith to Vestas / Henrik Stiesdal -- 10. From Danregn to bonus / Egon Kristensen -- 11. Vind-Syssel 1985-1990 / Flemming ¿stergaard -- 12. The story of Dencon / Bent Gregersen -- 13. Water brake windmills / Jr̜gen Krogsgaard -- 14. Cooperative energy movement in Copenhagen / Jens Larsen -- 15. The Danish small wind power / Jane Kruse -- 16. Consigned to oblivion / Preben Maegaard -- 17. H¿tter's heritage : the Stuttgart school / Bernward Janzing and Jan Oelker -- 18. Overview of German wind industry roots / Arne Jaeger -- 19. Direct drive wind turbines / Friedrich Klinger -- 20. How the early 1980s micro- and power-electronics innovation in Germany revolutionised wind energy systems / J¿rgen Sachau -- 21. How the electricity feed-in law (Stromeinspeisungsgesetz) came to be passed by the German Parliament, enabling renewable energies to establish their position in the market / Ulrich Jochimsen -- 22. Wind, women, art, acceptance / Brigitte Schmidt -- 23. California : wind farms retrospective / Arne Jaeger -- 24. Emergence of wind energy : the university of Massachusetts / James F. Manwell -- 25. An American personal perspective / Steven B. Smiley and Susan J. Kopka -- 26. Residential wind by way of illustration / Igor Avkshtol -- 27. Wind power in China : chasing a dream that creates value / Qin Haiyan -- 28. Rising wind power industry of XEMC / Zhou Jianxiong.