An arithmetical unit ( the " mill ") would be able to perform all four arithmetic operations, plus comparisons and optionally square roots.

The newly christened DEC received $ 70, 000 from AR & D for a 70 % share of the company, and began operations in a Civil War era textile mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, where plenty of inexpensive manufacturing space was available.

After resurging, the waters of the River Axe are used in a handmade paper mill, the oldest extant in Britain, which began operations circa 1610, although a corn grinding mill operated there as early as 1086.

Idarado kept the underground workings and mill operations open at Telluride ’ s Pandora hard-rock mine until 1978.

The first cotton mill opened in 1825, and 14 years later the first steam-powered factory in both Poland and Russia commenced operations.

The completion in 1894 of the lumber flume and commencement of mill operations provided the impetus for further development of the area around the Clovis Station.

" By 1820, there were 2 distilleries, 2 wheel wrights, an oil mill, fulling mill, carding machines, grist mills, saw mills, a goldsmith, and twine and cotton batting operations.

Owners of these sawmills had a superintendent who looked after the operations at the mill.

On November 21, 2008, International Paper Company, the largest area employer, announced that it will cease operations of its Bastrop mill.

Three months after the announcement of the International Paper mill closing, Pilgrim's Pride, a poultry company, confirmed the closure of operations in nearby Arcadia in Bienville Parish, Athens in Claiborne Parish, Choudrant in Lincoln Parish, and Farmerville in Union Parish.

In 1938, the Goodyears had ended their lumber operations at the Great Southern Lumber Company and sold the paper mill operations.

Having failed to secure a spot along the river that provided enough water power to run his mill, Talbot dismantled the settlement and moved to the present location of Addison, and by the fall of 1836, milling operations restarted.

Large scale operations began in 1897 when the claims were consolidated under the New Jersey Zinc Company and by 1900 its mill was processing 1500 tons of ore daily.

In October 2009, Domtar announced the end of paper machine operations, and the mill will be converted to produce fluff pulp alone, with a 33 % workforce reduction to about 360 employees.

In 1969 the Weyerhaeuser Company of Tacoma, Washington, purchased the Dierks's holdings, including the Wright City production complex and continued the operations, which remained the primary economic base of the community until March 2009 when all operations of the mill ceased due to low demand for lumber and the worsening economy.

All three used to have large operations when the Homestead steel mill was open.

In the 19th century an iron furnace and woolen mill were the main industrial operations, both owned and operated by Peter Graff I.

The construction policies and practices of the planing mill company were not dictated directly by Bare, but through a partnership, as most of his business operations were arranged.

The factory began operations in a building that once housed a silk mill.

The Ball family quickly had success and expanded their milling operations to include a clover mill.

* In Scotland, Western Europe's largest hot strip steel mill Ravenscraig steelworks, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was closed by British Steel in 1992, leading to huge unemployment in the area.

The last mill, used as a shirt factory, closed in the early 1950s.

In Québec, Val-Jalbert is a well-known tourist ghost town ; founded in 1901 around a mechanical pulp mill which became obsolete when paper mills began to break down wood fibre by chemical means, it was abandoned when the mill closed in 1927 and re-opened as a park in 1960.

With the advent of computer technology and increasingly harsh trading conditions, the Press's printing house at Oxford was closed in 1989, and its former paper mill at Wolvercote was demolished in 2004.

International Paper announced on October 22, 2009 that the paper mill will be permanently closed in the spring of 2010.

Dan River Industries closed its local mill in 2006, leaving a large number of Danvillians without jobs.

Gunning's weaving mill closed in 1956 and was swiftly followed by Adair's Mill and the Wellbrook estate in 1961.

With the mill affected by a decline in local supplies and overseas competition, it closed in 1881, after which the machinery was removed and the buildings demolished.

The mill and part of the factory were destroyed by fire in 1928, but the factory was rebuilt, and continued to produce mens garments until 1989, when it was closed with the loss of 100 jobs.

The mill eventually closed in 1968 and the houses were sold and moved leaving the townsite empty and a campground now stands were the town once did.

By 2005, hosiery mill employment in Fort Payne had declined to around 5, 500, and several mills had closed.

The Amity mill closed, though the planer and treatment plants remained open.

The Glenwood mill, which employed many Amity residents, closed and did not reopen until 2008.

After Schnaubelt's mill was taken over by his rivals, he re-entered the closed mill at night to reclaim his personal tools, and was shot to death by a nightwatchman hired to protect the property.

Modernization closed the mill in 1956 and the town was acquired by the West family in 1958.

Nestle plans to sell the property they had acquired for the bottling site, which was the site of the defunct McCloud lumber mill ( closed by last mill owners CalCedar ).

Though the mill is closed today, its former site houses several small businesses.

In the 1960s, the mill closed.

Honuapo's mill had long closed in 1972 and its workers transferred to Pahala.

The sawmill closed in 1938, but was replaced as the city's main industry by a paper mill and a chemical plant run by Gaylord Container Corp.

An attempt to keep the sawmill open with California redwood proved too costly, and the mill was closed.

But with the city's economic decline, many downtown stores closed, and the former mill housing became run-down, resulting in fallen land values.