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The mill used to grind the powder was driven by water from a mill pond formed by a dam across the original stream. The mill was the scene of three explosions, before its eventual closure, in which several workers died (one of whom, according to a rather ghoulish contemporary newspaper report, was blown into five, named, pieces).
King's Mead Mill is a four-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It has a Kentish-style cap winded by a fantail. When working it had four shuttered sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft, driving three pairs of millstones. The current windshaft is a dummy, added when the mill was converted.
Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine. The company was one of the four largest suppliers to Union forces through the American Civil War .
One component of a powder-mill, taken from Encyclopédie, published by Denis Diderot, circa 1770. A working example of the drawing above. This is a restored edge-runner mill at Eleutherian Mills. A powder mill was a mill where gunpowder is made [1] from sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal.
Windover Mill Post: c. 1800 Burnt down c. 1881 Baldslow: Hayward's Mill Post: Demolished 1855 Baldslow The Harrow Mill Smock: 1855: Barcombe: Post: c. 1818 [1] Burnt down c. 1907 [1] Battle: King's Head Mill Post: Demolished 1805 Battle King's Head Mill Caldbec Hill Mill: Smock: 1805: Windmill World: Battle Telham Hill Mill: Post: 1747 ...
The Sibley cotton mill was built on the site as a private venture in 1880–82, using bricks from the demolished powder works, and became one of the largest and most successful cotton mills in the region. [5] It manufactured denim until 2006, and the mill's water-driven turbines still generate electricity which is sold to Georgia Power.
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The story of gunpowder production at Waltham Abbey begins with a fulling mill for cloth production; originally set up by the monks of the Abbey on the Millhead Stream, an engineered water course tapping the waters of the River Lea. Mills were adaptable and in the early 17th century it was converted to an 'Oyle Mill', i.e. for producing ...