Publication:

Flour for man's bread: a history of milling

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    Authors & editors

    Storck, John [Author]
    Teague, Walter Darwin [Author]

    Publisher University of Minnesota Press
    Year of publication 1952
    Languages

    English (main text)

    Medium Book
    Edition1
    Topics

    Economics & commerce > Feeding the World
    Cereal processes
    Energy & power > Development of technology

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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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