The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide

Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 - Flour mills - 392 pages

ARTICLE PAGE 1 Preliminary remarks	9

On the essential properties of bodies	10

Axioms or laws of motion and rest	13

On absolute and relative motion	14

On momentum	15

On power or force and on the motive powers	16

On compound motion	18

Of nonelasticity and of fluidity in impinging bodies	19

Doubts respecting it	63

True theory farther sought for	64

Practical results of equal pressure	89

66 deduced 71	90

Friction of spouting fluids on apertures	96

Motion of breast and pitchback wheels	102

Observations and experiments on mills in practice	111

On canals for conveying water to mills	118

68	132

Directions for constructing cogwheels	133

Of the shaking sieve	152

Of the different Kinds of Mills	153

Rules and calculations in regulating the motion	177

Measuring the contents of garners hoppers	185

Of bevel gears	191

Of rollingscreens	194

Of gudgeons preventing their heating	199

98	233

Rule for judging of good grinding	259

Of the quality of mill stones to suit that of the wheat	267

Peculiar accidents by which mills are subject to catch fire	274

Undershot mills and laying on the water	280

Of pitchback wheels	286

Dressing shafts	296

Of the use of draughting to build mills	309

Directions for draughting and planning mills	322

Explanation of the plates	328

Of fullingmills	340

Remarks by the Editor	357

On the distance which bodies fall and the velocities acquired in con	366

Strength and durability of the teeth of wheels	372

Of making patterns for castiron	378

On reaction wheels extracted from Franklin Journal	384

Title	The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide
Author	Oliver Evans
Editor	Thomas P. Jones
Edition	9
Publisher	Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836
Original from	Deutsches Museum
Digitized	4 Dec 2017
Length	392 pages

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Of falling bodies	21

Of spouting fluids	22

Of circular motion and central forces	27

Of the centres of magnitude motion and gravity	30

Of the mechanical powers	31

Of the lever	32

General rules for computing the power of an engine	33

Of the different kinds of levers	34

Compound levers	35

Calculating the power of wheel work	37

Power decreases as motion increases	38

No power gained by double gearing	39

Of the wheel and axle	41

Of the inclined plane	42

Of the screw	43

Of the flywheel and its use	44

On friction	45

Seventh law of spouting fluids demonstrated	46

On the friction of different substances	47

Mechanical contrivances to reduce friction	48

Of maximums	50

Investigation of old theory	51

New theory doubted	55

Scale of experiments	57

Warings theory	59

The same continued	62

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