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Early works to 1800, Flour mills, Flour-mills, Mills and mill-workShowing 5 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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The young mill-wright and miller's guide: illustrated by twenty-eight descriptive plates.
1853, Blanchard and Lea
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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.
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The young mill-wright & miller's guide: in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ...
1795, Printed for, and sold by the author ...
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Table of Contents
(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.
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