The young mill-wright & miller's guide
Subtitle: in five parts, embellished with twenty five plates ...
By: by Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia.
Contributors: Ellicott, Thomas, 1738-1799.; Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by the author ...
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Flour mills -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Young mill-wright and miller's guide
Notes: LC copy from the Peter Force collection.
Evans 28644
Part 5 by Thomas Ellicott.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-X⁴, ²B-Z⁴, ³[A]⁴ B-C⁴ D⁴(D1 + chi1.2) E-M⁴ chi1 N⁴ [O]²(-O2).
Folded plates signed: James Poupard, Sculpt. and J.J. Bury, Sculp.
"Subscriber's names"--P. [1-10] of last unnumbered sequence.
Publisher's advertisement and errata: final [2] p.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Part I. Mechanics and hydraulics, shewing errors in the old, and establishing a new system of theories of water-mills, by which the power of mill-seats and the effects they will produce may be ascertained by calculation; title: Part. II. Rules for applying the theories to practice, tables for proportioning mills to the power and fall of the water, and rules for finding pitch circles, with tables from 6 to 136 cogs; title: Part III. Directions for constructing and using all the authors patented improvements in mills; title: Part IV. The art of manufacturing meal and flour in all its parts, as practiced by the most skilful millers in America; title: Part V. The practical mill-wright, containing instructions for building mills, with tables of their proportions suitable for all falls from three to thirty-six feet; title: Appendix. Containing rules for discovering new improvements, exemplified in improving the art of thrashing and cleaning grain, hulling rice, warming rooms, and venting smoke by chimneys, &c.