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Kodachrome RIP

Kodak have just announced they are discontinuing Kodachrome colour film. The Daily Telegraph “Digital cameras kill Kodachome slides” quotes the company as saying customers prefer to capture images with newer technology The Company’s wesbite has this link: http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=15359&pq-locale=en_GB Following on the earlier demise of the Kodak Carousel projector (although mine still works) this announcement is the…

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The Power of Waterwheels

Author: Stuart Mousdale Does anyone know of any books, articles, etc which deal with estimating power output from water wheels or could comment on this subject? I work as a volunteer at Dunham Massey sawmill in Cheshire. Recently there has been some discussion amongst the mill stewards regarding the power output from the water wheel…

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Millers on Stamps

Tony Yoward pointed out that these stamps are for sale from the Isle of Man Post office – so I have taken the plunge! They show mills and millers from IOM and the full set is for sale at http://www.iompost.com/stamps/stampissues.xml Unusual to find a set of stamps featuring millers – mills are not uncommon, but I…

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A Mill Discovery?

John Boucher has pointed to new evidence of Pinxton Mill in Derbyshire. Pictures taken by Hugh Potter show the mill, which burnt down in 1844, depicted on a cup. The mill is not listed in Alan Gifford’s excellent Derbyshire Watermills (£5 from the Midlands Mill Group or from http://shop.millsarchivetrust.org/ ) John writes: These are the only known…

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Mills at Harby, Vale of Belvoir, Leicestershire

Author: Leslie Cram Information on mills at Harby in Leicestershire can be found on my website. The most useful links arehttp://www.harby.co.uk/directories.htmhttp://www.harby.co.uk/factfile.htmhttp://www.harby.co.uk/mill.htm We have done the best we can to get the information for the photographs correct. Sometimes, particularly for dates, we have made a guess. We will welcome any information that can be sent to…

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Transfer of windmill or watermill technology

Author: Torben Jenk What evidence is there for transatlantic technology transfer as far as mill construction is concerned? I live near the former sites of Masters’ Tide Mill (ca. 1718), and Koster’s Wind-Mill and Boulting Mill (ca. 1750), both along the Delaware River in Philadelphia. I am particularly interested in learning about the likely technology…

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