Flour for man's bread: a history of milling
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Year of publication | 1952 |
| Languages | English (main text) |
| Medium | Book |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Economics & commerce > Feeding the World |
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Accession no. 373
- Shelf location: D500-STO
- Donor: Peter Dolman Collection
- Notes: Illustrated by Harold Rydell
Divisions within this publication
- 1: The line we shall follow
- 2: Diet makes man
- 3: The grinding of wild grain begins
- 4: Grain cultivation begins
- 5: Farming and milling tools appear - and bread
- 6: The Grain Empires
- 7: Milling becomes a business
- 8: Water turns millstones
- 9: Man masters the winds for milling
- 10: Man's new power resources
- 11: Milling comes to America
- 12: Oliver Evans invents the automatic mill
- 13: Westward Ho!
- 14: Automatic milling and the purifier start a revolution in American milling
- 15: Rollers and gradual reduction advance the milling revolution
- 16: The automatic all-roller gradual-reduction mill completes the revolution
- 17: The business side of milling gains importance
- 18: The modern mill and its flour
- 19: The new era of organisation and research
- 20: Looking forward
- 21: Vocabulary of milling terms
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