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Author: Hayden Francis-Legg

Millwrighting exhibition

Millwrighting has been on the Heritage Craft Association Red List of Endangered Crafts since 2019.  Without increased opportunities and interest...

Alan Stoyel Collection arrives

The Alan Stoyel Foundation Collection is one of the four foundation collections of the Mills Archive Trust. Alan played an...

Iron in Mills and Millwrighting

Though the use of iron in millwrighting is not as traditional as that of wood, iron has firmly cemented its place...

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...

Vincent Pargeter (1943-2015)

Vincent was born in Islington in late 1943. After attending school, he worked in Westminster Bank from 1961 until 1969....

Wood in millwrighting

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

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...

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