Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest

18th-century allegorical print commemorating C.C. van Uitgeest's invention of the saw mill.

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest or Krelis Lootjes (c. 1550 – c. 1600) was a Dutch windmill owner from Uitgeest who invented the wind-powered sawmill, which made the conversion of log timber into planks 30 times faster than before.[1]

  1. ^ "Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest (1550–1607), inventor of the wind powered saw mill", Industrial Heritage Park De Hoop Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine