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A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. [ 1 ] The term millwright (also known as industrial mechanic [ 2 ] ) is mainly used in the United States, Canada and South Africa to describe members belonging to a ...
While millwrighrs have evolved overtime from specialized carpenters who also added the shafts of a water mill to a group of metal working skilled tradesmen who set up the production apparatus in a place such as a power plant, the change is not at any point so abrupt we can justify a category break.
William Thorold (9 October 1798 – 17 December 1878 [1]) was a 19th-century millwright, architect and civil engineer in Norwich, Norfolk, England.. He was born in 1798 in Methwold, Norfolk, the son of a farmer.
Millmen 550—A History of the Militant Years (1961–1966) of Local 550, United Brotherhood of Carpenters. Self-published, 1990. Kazin, Michael. Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1987. ISBN 0-252-01345-X
Mills were made by millwrights, builders and iron founders. [42] By the end of the 18th century there were about 900 cotton mills in Britain, of which approximately 300 were large Arkwright-type factories employing 300 to 400 workers, the rest, smaller mills using jennies or mules, were hand- or horse-driven and employed as few as 10 workers. [43]
John Hall (5 September 1765 – 7 January 1836) was an English millwright and mechanical engineer, who, in 1785, founded the Dartford-based engineering company which became J & E Hall, today a prominent supplier of refrigeration machinery, and part of the Daikin group.
Hawn's Mill was a mill established on the banks of Shoal Creek in Fairview Township, Caldwell County, Missouri in 1835–1836 by Jacob Hawn. [3] Hawn was the son of German emigrants to Canada, who resettled in New York, where Jacob was born.
Slater was a well-known millwright in the area; he also built mills at Pilling and Clifton. [5] The mill was initially used to grind different grades of flour. [6] From the early 19th century, it was used to grind meal for farm animal feed. [4] [6] In the 19th century, the original chain and wheel winding gear was replaced with a four bladed ...