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Fact 2223 — from windmills to air rifles

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. Historical reconstruction of the windmill factory and its rural Michigan setting.
AI-generated historical reconstruction of metalworking at a late-19th-century workshop with a windmill visible outside.
AI-generated historical reconstruction of workers and windmill components in a changing factory.

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. Historical reconstruction of the windmill factory and its rural Michigan setting.

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Daisy began as the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company in Michigan, making windmills. In 1888 it began offering metal air rifles as a premium to windmill buyers. The rifles became so popular that in 1895 the company stopped making windmills and focused on airguns.