Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 402
er are appended, revolves slowly around itself, making from 3 to five revolutions perminute. This shaft carries with it the two headstones, which revolve around the vertical axis, and intlie mean time around their own axis, running upon a tliird millstone, which is laid horizontal, and fixedupon… … celain manufactories. Similar mills are exclusively employed in North Carolina for crushing gold ores,also to some extent in Virginia; they are there entirely constructed of iron, or at least the facing, orgrinding part of it is made of cast-Uon; and are here called Chihan-mills. These mills show…
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