Treatise On Mills And Mill Work On The Principles Of Mechanism And On Prime Movers

Excerpt from Treatise on Mills and Millwork, Vol. 1: On the Principles of Mechanism and on Prime Movers; Comprising the Accumulation and Estimation of Water Power; The Construction of Water Wheels and Turbines; The Properties of Steam; The Varieties of Steam Engines and Boilers, and Windmills WE may search in vain for dates from which to calculate the earliest period at which the principles of accumulating power, and transmitting it for employment in mills, were first introduced, and it is equally impossible to trace. Consecutively the progressive developments that have taken place from the days of antiquity to the present improved state of the arts. Perhaps the earliest introduction of machinery was in the pro cesses for the preparation of food, as we read of the Egyptians and Babylonians, and other nations in Europe and Asia, having mills for grinding corn from the earliest period of historical records. Hesiod and Pliny both describe the most primitive method of the preparation of com, a method still further illus trated among the pictorial remains of the Egyptians, viz. Pounding in a mortar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A single-volume reissue of an eminent Victorian engineer's illustrated two-part guide to industrial machinery, first published in 1861 and 1863.