Editing Windhexe (section)

== History ==

The Windhexe was invented by retired [[Kansas]] farmer Frank Polifka, who began work on it following retirement.<ref name="nbcnews">{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Alex|title=A good stiff breeze for industry|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4723367/#.UmmN2fnryHg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113045741/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4723367/#.UmmN2fnryHg|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 13, 2013|accessdate=24 October 2013|newspaper=NBC news|date=2004-05-19}}</ref>  The Windhexe was unveiled to a small group of the local press in 2002, following 15 years of work by Polifka. Polifka died August 23, 2012, of natural causes in Catherine, Kansas<ref>{{cite web|last=Hays Memorial Chapel|title=Francis D. "Frank" Polifka|url=http://www.haysmemorial.com/obits/obituary.php?id=200720|accessdate=24 October 2013}}</ref> The commercial use of the Windhexe machine is now controlled by Vortex Dehydration Technology LLC, a company co-founded by Polifka. The company now licenses and maintains Windhexe machines for industrial and commercial use for a per-tonne fee. The company now employs 12 and has an annual revenue that exceeds $3,000,000 USD annually.<ref name="keshding">{{cite web|title=History TimeLine|url=http://www.keshding.com/imd210/assign4/history.html|publisher=Vortex Dehydration Technologies|accessdate=24 October 2013}}</ref>