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Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, William, have you ever seen the Internet?No.In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen.This is Google, he said. You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?Windmill.In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined.

William Kamkwamba

Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, William, have you ever seen the Internet?No.In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen.This is Google, he said. You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?Windmill.In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined.

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About William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987, in Kasungu, Malawi), is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in his country in 2001 when he built a wind turbine to power multiple electrical appliances in his family's house in Wimbe, 23 kilometres (14 mi) east of Kasungu, using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard. Since then, he has built a solar-powered water pump that supplies the first drinking water in his village and two other wind turbines, the tallest standing at 12 meters (39 ft), and has built two more, including one in Lilongwe, the political capital of Malawi.