Description
Mill Work
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Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Copperplate engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: 1816
- Editor: G. Gregory, D.D.
- Engraver: ---
- Publisher: Issac Peirce, Philadelphia
- Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Light water-trace in lower right corner of print.
- Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
Notes:
- Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
- 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
Legend to the illustrations depicted in the print:
- Various
types of mills: Terry's mill, Mr. Rawlinson's colour mill, Indigo mill,
Bark mill (fig. 3-5), Coin mill (Fig. 1). AB (fig. 1) js the
water-wheel, which is generally from 18 to 24 feet in diameter,
reckoned from the outermost edge of any float-board at A, to that of
the opposite one at B. The water striking on the floats of this wheel
drives it round, and gives motion to the mill. The wheel is fixed upon
a very strong axis or shaft, C, one end of which rests on D, and the
other on E, within the mill-house. Fig. 3 is a horizontal plan of the
mill. Fig. 4, a longitudinal section of it. Fig. 5, a transverse
section of it.
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