We are in the process of updating our website, so a few features may not work properly yet. If you run into problems or have any questions, please email friends@millsarchive.org; we will get back to you during business hours.

Our donations feature will be unavailable while we do some upgrades, we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause

Day: April 12, 2022

John Smeaton F.R.S (1724-1792)

By his definition, John Smeaton was not a millwright but a ‘civil engineer’. However, his contributions to millwrighting are too...

John Rennie (1761-1821)

John Rennie was born in 1761 in East Lothian in Scotland. Rennie showed a natural taste in engineering at a...

Catgerories