The young mill-wright and miller's guide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819.

Contributor:

Ellicott, Thomas, 1738-1799.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flour mills.

Flour mills--Equipment and supplies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : M. Carey & Son, 1821.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I. Mechanics and hydraulics : showing errors in the old, and establishing a new system of theories of water-mills, by which the power of mill-seats, and the effects they will produce, may be ascertained by calculation.

Part II. Rules for applying the theories to practice, tables for proportioning mills to the power and fall of the water, and rules for finding pitch circles, with tables from 6 to 136 cogs.

Part III. Directions for constructing and using all the author's patented improvements in mills.

Part IV. The art of manufacturing meal and flour in all its parts, as practised by the most skilful millers in America.

Part V. The practical mill-wright : containing instructions for building mills, with tables of their proportions, suitable for all falls from 3 to 36 feet.

Appendix. Containing rules for discovering new improvements exemplified in improving the art of cleaning grain, hulling rice, warming rooms, and venting smake by chimnies, &c.

Notes:

Part 5 by Thomas Ellicott.

Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 23178.7.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65250998

Access Restriction:

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