An edition of The young mill-wright and miller's guide (1795)

The young mill-wright & miller's guide

in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ...

by Evans, Oliver

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An edition of The young mill-wright and miller's guide (1795)

The young mill-wright & miller's guide

in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ...

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1 The young mill-wright and miller's guide. 1972, Arno Press in English 0405046995 9780405046995	cccc Borrow Listen
2 The young mill-wright and miller's guide: illustrated by twenty-eight descriptive plates. 1853, Blanchard and Lea in English - 14th ed.	bbbb Read Listen
3 The young mill-wright and miller's guide 1853, Blanchard - Ed. 14.	bbbb Read Listen
4 The young mill-wright and miller's guide 1850, Lea & Blanchard in English - The 13th ed., with additions and corrections; by Thomas P. Jones ... with a description of an improved merchant flour-mill, with engravings. By C. & 0. Evans, engineers.	bbbb Read Listen
5 The young mill-wright & miller's guide: in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ... 1795, Printed for, and sold by the author ... in English	aaaa Read Listen

Book Details

(from t.p.) Part I. Mechanics and hydraulics, shewing 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 authors patented improvements in mills

Part IV. The art of manufacturing meal and flour in all its parts, as practiced 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 three to thirty-six feet

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

Edition Notes

LC copy from the Peter Force collection.
Evans 28644
Part 5 by Thomas Ellicott.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-X⁴, ²B-Z⁴, ³[A]⁴ B-C⁴ D⁴(D1 + chi1.2) E-M⁴ chi1 N⁴ [O]²(-O2).
Folded plates signed: James Poupard, Sculpt. and J.J. Bury, Sculp.
"Subscriber's names"--P. [1-10] of last unnumbered sequence.
Publisher's advertisement and errata: final [2] p.

Published in: Philadelphia
Genre: Early works to 1800.
Other Titles: Young mill-wright and miller's guide

Classifications

Library of Congress: TS2145 .E8

The Physical Object

Pagination: [8], 160, ii, [1], 4-178 [i.e. 176], x, [1], 12-90, 10, [12] p., XII, XIV leaves of plates (2 folded) :
Number of pages: 178

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL6984599M
Internet Archive: youngmillwrightm00evan
LCCN: 07017555
OCLC/WorldCat: 976954586
Library Thing: 3895803

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The young mill-wright & miller's guide

in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ...

by Evans, Oliver