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 120, 000 acres were in time exhausted, and by 1920, the mill shut down.

The mill shut down in 1982, but many workers found jobs elsewhere in metro Atlanta.

The sugar plantation and mill shut down in April, 1996.

In 1981 the mill was shut down, shortly after the town was sold to the residents.

The mill was purchased by Pharr Yarns in 1957 and was shut down in 1999.

The addition of a spur line to the nearby Cherry Grove area for the construction of a lumber mill in 1911 added significant activity to the local economy, although it had to be shut down in 1913 during a lumber market crash.

Although the mill was shut down in 1925, the community was established and continued to grow, eventually becoming known as a resort town and becoming popular with tourists.

In 2006, the Weyerhaueser pulp mill in Cosmopolis shut down, costing the local community 245 jobs.

The city also hosts a number of small businesses, including gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, and salons, among others. However, on May 28th, 2012, the Verson Paper mill was severely damaged by an explosion and was shut down.

In 2008 the mill ceased production of fine paper as the second of two paper machines was shut down.

( The Washburn " A " mill was later rebuilt and continued to be used until it was shut down in 1965.

After the woolen mill finally shut down in 1950, local businessmen bought the property and began leasing it as office or manufacturing space.

In March 1921 during a brief period when the mine was shut down, mill No. 2 burnt to the ground.

Saint Regis University was a diploma mill operation that was one of about 120 connected institutions operated by an American fraud ring from about 1999 until 2005, when it was shut down by U. S. government authorities.

As the J. Schmitt steam mill in Mainz-Mombach expanded in the early years of the 20th century, the traditional watermills in the area became ever less profitable, and August Krebs ’ s mills shut down as surely as the rest.

The town's economic lifeblood, a pulp mill owned by a large multinational corporation, was shut down in 1972.

The Ocean Falls mill thus joined the ranks of other older, remote pulp and paper mills in British Columbia shut down during the latter part of the twentieth century.

The grain mill and former smithy at Krummewiese, on the northern edge of Rummenohl, which had been in operation since 1824, was shut down in 1952.

A new fireproof mill was begun but never completed, and the company shut down in 1925 after George W. Hopkins died.

When the grist mill and sawmill on the milldam were shut down, an almost 600-year history of milling came to an end in Nordhorn.

In 1915 the mill was finally shut down.

He was a literal man of steel who made rails from molten metal with his bare hands ; he refused an opportunity to marry in order to devote himself to working 24 hours a day, worked so hard that the mill had to shut down, and finally, in despair at enforced idleness, melted himself down in the mill's furnace in order to improve the quality of the steel.

The forest industry was the largest employer until 2007, when the Domtar mill shut down.

The mill was shut down in April, 1993.