At age 14, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built a working windmill from scrap materials to generate electricity for his family's home, a story later told in "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind."
Record no. MRB-2026-006597
Teenager who built a wind turbine from scrap parts
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