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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A Photograph is the “pause button” of life “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s...

The British Engineering Works of William Gardner and Sons

Last May I featured William Gardner of Gloucester in a brief review of 10 succesful milling engineers with works in the UK. ...

Into the Industrial Age: Developments in wind and water power, 1750-1850

From Quern to Computer; a history of flour milling by Martin and Sue Watts covers a wide range of topics...

Mills make the world go round

Mills are most well-known for grinding corn into flour. Over the centuries mills powered by wind, water and other power sources...

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