Ganzel & Wulff
Subtitle: the quest for American milling secrets
By: Derek Ogden & Gerald Bost
Contributors: Ganzel, Carl Friedrich; Wulff, Friedrich; Beuth, Peter Christian Wilhelm, 1781-1853
Series: Bibliotheca molinologica -- vol. 20
Publisher: The International Molinological Society
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Congleton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789291340255
Subjects: Grain; Milling; Flour mills
Other titles: Ganzel and Wulff
Description: Between 1825-1829, Carl Friedrich Ganzel and Friedrich Wulff toured the United States. Along the way they stopped in and whenever possible spent some time working in American mills. These fellows noted the tools and techniques of American milling and upon their return to Prussia, published : "Beiträge zur Kenntniss des amerikanischen Mühlenwesens und der Mehlfabrikation", which transformed Prussian and by extension European mills. This volume contains an English  translation of Ganzel & Wulff's work, as well as some related treatises and commentaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Proceedings of the Association for the promotion of industrial knowledge in Prussia : contribution to the understanding of American mills and flour production  -- Carl Friedrich Ganzel & Friedrich Wulff (1832); title: Comments on the 1832 Report "Contribution to the understanding of American mills and flour production"  -- Derek Ogden; title: German adoption of American milling techniques  -- Gerald Bost; title: Proceedings of the Association for the promotion of industrial knowledge in Prussia : About the report of flour and the improvement of milling  -- Ch.P.W. Beuth -- Comments on the 1825 paper "About the report of flour and the improvement of milling" / -- Derek Ogden; title: Proceedings of the Association for the promotion of industrial knowledge in Prussia: a description of the flour mill in Mewe, West Prussia, owned by Mr. Witt, a merchant of Danzig  -- Mr. Wedding; title: The Rother Mill in Bromberg from "the flour mill, a description of the construction and operation of ordinary mills  -- F.H.K. Wiebe; title: Prussian weights, measures & currency.