Sentence examples for powered mills from inspiring English sources
Help a good cause!" shouted a man in yellow boots, waving a pair of footlong toy boats, as we walked down the cobblestone street toward Brown's Race in Rochester, a relic of America's early industrial years that once powered mills grinding wheat into flour for New York City bakeries.
Since customers are sensitive to the cost of service milling (increases in milling fees), there have been cases of diesel hammer mills being shut down if there are electrically powered mills within walking distance.
Known as black liquor, the byproduct has powered mills since the 1930s.
Paterson, which has about 150,000 people, once thrived because of the river, which powered mills that made textiles, giving the city a worldwide reputation for manufacturing.
Torrington also made brass, and it was one of many textile cities that dotted western New England: rivers abound, and they powered mills.
Bankruptcy and lawsuit documents reveal how waterfalls powered mills that generated tens of thousands of reams a year, while owners tried to replace expensive rag pulp by grinding vats of asbestos, leather and seaweed instead.
The spread of water-powered mills to grind grain allowed an improvement in diet, as bread replaced gruel.
During the period 1838 80 the Cuban sugar industry became the most mechanized in the world, utilizing steam-powered mills (ingenios) and narrow-gauge railroads.
Tameside's domestic textile industry gave way to factory production in the 18th century with the construction of water-powered mills along the River Tame.
It consisted of a U-shaped metal frame, on which was stretched a narrow blade made from a clock spring, the best and most uniform steel available, for it was not forged but rolled in small, hand-powered mills.
Newark, situated within three miles of the junction of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, is on the "fall line" between the Piedmont Plateau and the coastal plains, making the rapidly flowing White Clay Creek an ideal spot for water-powered mills.
