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The compressed cake was transferred to a corning mill or kernelling mill to be cut into pieces of approximately correct size by bronze- or zinc-toothed wheels. [2] Kernelling mill products were sorted by size using leather sieves. Oversize product was returned to the kernelling mill, while undersize product was returned to the press mill. [2]
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...
Stamp mill, a specialized machine for reducing ore to powder for further processing or for fracturing other materials A place of business for making articles of manufacture. The term mill was once in common use for a factory because many factories in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution were powered by a watermill, but nowadays it is ...
Gristmill, a grain mill (flour mill) Herb grinder; Oil mill, see expeller pressing, extrusion; Ore mill, for crushing and processing ore; Paper mill; Pellet mill; Powder mill, produces gunpowder; Puppy mill, a breeding facility that produces puppies on a large scale, where the welfare of the dogs is jeopardized for profits; Rock crusher; Sugar ...
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...
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Nathan Pratt purchased a mill pond dam on the Assabet River and converted the former sawmill to a powder mill in 1835. Pratt sold the mill to the American Powder Company in 1864. [ 1 ] The mill manufactured 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of gunpowder per day through the American Civil War . [ 2 ]
The Continental Powder Works at French Creek is a historic gunpowder manufacturing complex in East Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.Constructed on French Creek in early 1776 and intended to supply the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the mill was the only powder mill and gun factory commissioned by the Continental Congress.