The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

( Popular images of this section have sometimes been mislabelled, implying that it was the entire mill or even the entire engine.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Charles Corydon Hall, a New England engineer, arrived in Alexandria to help manage a steel mill just as its natural gas supply was exhausted around the turn of the 19th century.

* 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.

Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

A gammadion shaped gold light mill, only 100 nanometers in diameter, was built and illuminated by laser light that had been tuned to have an angular momentum.

From 1957 until 1992 its headquarters was located in a former wool mill at Clock Tower Place, Maynard, Massachusetts.

DEC was headquartered at a former wool mill at Clock Tower Place, Maynard MA from 1957 until 1992

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.

Sugar cane was introduced to Hispaniola from the Canary Islands, and the first sugar mill in the New World was established in 1516, on Hispaniola.

According to Strabo, a water powered mill was built in Kaberia of the kingdom of Mithridates during the 1st century BC.

When the tide turned the water was trapped and it was only allowed to flow out under a mill turning its ' wheel '.

The Museum voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel or MIAT displays the industrial strength of Ghent with recreations of workshops and stores from the 1800s and original spinning and weaving machines that remain from the time when the building was a weaving mill.

Traditionally, the corn for grits was ground by a stone mill.

The last remaining gunpowder mill at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey was damaged by a German parachute mine in 1941 and it never reopened.

Originally this was with a mortar-and-pestle or a similarly operating stamping-mill, using copper, bronze or other non-sparking materials, until supplanted by the rotating ball mill principle with non-sparking bronze or lead.

Historically, a marble or limestone edge runner mill, running on a limestone bed was used in Great Britain ; however, by the mid 19th century AD this had changed to either an iron shod stone wheel or a cast iron wheel running on an iron bed.

Shoveling the damp mill cake into a two-foot square box, this was placed beneath a screw press and reduced to 1 / 2 its volume.

Saint Anthony Falls, United States ; hydropower was used here to mill flour.

The Film Preservation Board described this two-reel melodrama from 1912, part of which was filmed in a working textile mill, as a " key work " in relation to the U. S. movement for child labor reform in the years before World War I.

The ball mill is a key piece of equipment for grinding crushed materials, and it is widely used in production lines for powders such as cement, silicates, refractory material, fertilizer, glass ceramics, etc.

Historically, the town was home to a vibrant manufacturing industry with a woollen mill and foundry being key employers.

In line with his plan for the North, Hudak commented that “ Reducing Northern Ontario's high energy costs is key to making industries there more profitable and preventing future mill closures .”

The plant expanded and became part of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation in late 1931, becoming a key component of a fully integrated steel mill and a division of the larger National Steel Corporation.

Grünerløkka was named after Friedrich Grüner who bought a mill in the area from king Christian V of Denmark in 1672 ( the last element is the finite form of løkke f ' paddock ').

A mill, another characteristic element of Norman settlements, was located on the river, to the north of the keep.

An example of this is that every piece of equipment ( in a lumber manufacturing plant ) from the green trimmer to the infeed system at the planer mill is the " drying system ".

The adoption of the factory system, which developed into the Industrial Revolution, enabled the transformation of Bacup from a small rural village into a mill town, populated by an influx of families attracted by Bacup's cotton mills, civic amenities and regional railway network.

# PCB milling uses a two or three-axis mechanical milling system to mill away the copper foil from the substrate.

The modern factory, or ' mill ', system was born here in the 18th century to accommodate the new technology for spinning cotton developed by Richard Arkwright.

Cromford Mill and Cromford was the site of Arkwright's first mill, and his system of production and worker's housing was copied throughout the valley.

The city now has paved streets, a splendid " White Way ," five brick and stone schoolhouses, seven churches, a large cotton oil mill, light and ice plant, well built and attractive business blocks, three parks, a fine waterworks and sewage system, four banks, two hotels, the three story brick boarding school for Creek girls and an abundance of natural gas for domestic and commercial purposes.

The hotel burned in 1890 and the mill was destroyed by a flood in 1903 despite the construction of an intricate system of dikes to control the water into the mill.

Georgetown was home to a lumber yard, a cement works, the Washington Flour mill, and a meat rendering plant, with incinerator smokestacks and a power generating plant for the old Capital Traction streetcar system, located at the foot of Wisconsin Avenue, which closed in 1935, and was demolished in October 1968.

The factory system, and textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution triggered a process of unplanned urbanisation in the area, and by the mid-19th century Ashton had emerged as an important mill town at a convergence of newly constructed canals and railways.

However, the introduction of the factory system in the 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, changed Ashton from a market town to a mill town.

His skills of organization made him, more than anyone else, the creator of the modern factory system, especially in his mill at Cromford.

A former mill town, textiles have been produced in Blackburn since the middle of the 13th century, when wool was woven in people's houses in the domestic system.

As noted by Roe, Evans is best known for the system of conveyors and other equipment he developed for his automatic flour mill:

* Late-Completion of the Boston Manufacturing Company's integrated cotton weaving mill on the Charles River at Waltham, Massachusetts, engineered by Paul Moody for Francis Cabot Lowell and the ' The Boston Associates ', and inaugurating the Waltham-Lowell system of manufacturing.

The whole mill is run off a single engine by an intricate pulley system.

The Dutch were skilled in hydraulic engineering and they devised a system of furrows to direct water from the Eerste Rivier in the vicinity of Thibault Street through the town along van Riebeeck Street to Mill Street where a mill was erected.

An inerting system increases the safety of a fuel tank, ball mill, or other sealed or closed-in tank that contains highly flammable material.

A water system was devised to not only supply pure water for domestic use, but also to provide water power to such industries as a sawmill, planing mill, grist mill, spinning mill, pottery and a tannery.

The Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage ( 1918 – 20 ), chaired by Lord Emmott, reported in 1920 that the only feasible scheme was to divide the pound into 1000 mills ( the pound and mill system ), first proposed in 1824 but that this would be too inconvenient.

Together with the single source of power ( water ), and the large size and organisation of the workforce for the period ( 200-400, according to contemporary sources ), the total process of production from raw silk to fine quality thread has led the Lombes ' silk mill to be described as the first successful use of the factory system in Britain.