The young mill-wright and miller's guide
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
M. Carey & Son
1821, 1821
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| Edition: | 4th ed |
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| Collection: | Making of the Modern World - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- showing errors in the old, and establishing a new system of theories of water-mills, by which the power of mill-seats, and the effects they will produce, may be ascertained by calculation.
- Part II. Rules for applying the theories to practice, tables for proportioning mills to the power and fall of the water, and rules for finding pitch circles, with tables from 6 to 136 cogs.
- Part III. Directions for constructing and using all the author's patented improvements in mills.
- Part IV. The art of manufacturing meal and flour in all its parts, as practised by the most skilful millers in America.
- Part V. The practical mill-wright : containing instructions for building mills, with tables of their proportions, suitable for all falls from 3 to 36 feet.
- Appendix. Containing rules for discovering new improvements exemplified in improving the art of cleaning grain, hulling rice, warming rooms, and venting smake by chimnies, &c