Month: March 2022

Women in Milling: an interactive exhibition

Elizabeth Bartram (Director) & Mildred Cookson (Founding Trustee) The story of flour milling is as ancient as civilisation itself, and...

Wood in millwrighting

Since mills first appeared in Britain, the main material that has been used to construct them has been wood. The...

Satanic mills

Opinions are divided on the question of what the poet William Blake was talking about when he referred to the...

Women in milling

Elizabeth Bartram (Director) & Mildred Cookson (Founding Trustee) Milling has a rich and immersive history. Women have always been involved...

Ulrich Hütter (1910-1990)

Ulrich Hütter was an Austrian-German engineer and professor who pioneered in the generation of electricity through wind power. After completing...

Hermann Honnef (1878-1961)

Hermann Honnef was a German inventor and a visionary for the use of wind power for energy. At the age...

Albert Betz (1885-1968)

Albert Betz was a German physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology. Betz was born in Schweinfurt in Bavaria...

Palmer C Putnam (1900-1984)

Palmer C Putnam was an American engineer and a pioneer of wind power. He was born in 1900 to American...

Charles Brush (1849-1929)

Charles Brush was an inventor and engineer born in March 1849. After developing an early interest in science, Brush attended...

Edward William Golding (1902-1965)

E.W Golding was born in Northwich, Cheshire in 1902 and was educated at the Manchester College of Technology graduating with...

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