A history of milling : flour for man's bread
1952, First Edition. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper; not price-clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420940
Physical description; vi, 382 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 27 cm. Notes; The book and dust jacket designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-372). Contents; Foreword / by James F. Bell -- The line we shall follow -- Diet makes the man -- The grinding of wild grains begins -- Gain cultivation begins -- Farming and milling tools appear-and bread -- The grain empires -- Milling becomes a business -- Water turns the millstones -- Man masters the winds for milling -- Man's new power resources -- Milling comes to America -- Oliver Evans invents the automatic mill -- Westward ho! -- Automatic miling and the purifier start a revolution in American milling -- Rollers and gradual reduction advance the milling revolution -- The automatic all-roller gradual-reduction mill completes the revolution -- The business side of milling gains importance -- The modern mill and its flour -- The new era of organization and research -- Looking forward.Subjects; Flour mills History. Food-Processing Industry history. Grain Milling History. Milling machinery. Mills and mill-work History.
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