Windmills and watermills

£36.00

First Edition Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 9.75″ x 9″ (25 x 23cm) 4 pages of coloured plates from photographs. Also with many illustrations from photographs and from drawings in the text. The descriptions of the machinery of the windmill and the watermill in the text are aided by the author’s isometric drawings and by detail photographs. Bookstamp of previous owner. Excursions into Architecture Series. includes:- Glossary; Selected Bibliography and Index, chapters on The Origins and Development of Wind and Water Power,Water Wheels and Millstones, The Machinery of the Watermill, The Development of the Horizontal Mill, The Wind Powered Corn Mill, The Machinery of the Windmill, The Use of Water Power in the Textile Industry,Water Powered Drainage Mills, Wind Powered Drainage Mills and Other Industrial Uses of Wind and Water Power.

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