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The mill was fed by the Piedras river and is located at the end of a dirt road, which has its access located between the Camino de Malascarnes and the Camino del Cementerio. The marshes where the mill is located are part of the Piedras river marshes and Flecha del Rompido, a natural area that has been protected since 1989. [4]
A 1780s scribbling mill would be driven by a water wheel. There were 170 scribbling mills around Leeds at that time. Each scribbler would require 15–45 horsepower (11–34 kW) to operate. Modern machines are driven by belting from an electric motor or an overhead shaft via two pulleys. [8]
Plateresque, meaning "in the manner of a silversmith" (plata being silver in Spanish), was an artistic movement, especially architectural, developed in Spain and its territories, which appeared between the late Gothic and early Renaissance in the late 15th century and spread over the next two centuries.
The Spanish introduced the arrastra to the New World in the 16th century. The word "arrastra" comes from the Spanish language arrastrar, meaning to drag along the ground. [ 2 ] Arrastras were suitable for use in small or remote mines, since they could be built from local materials and required little investment capital .
Stave construction is a traditional timber frame with walls of vertical planks, the posts and planks landing in a sill on a foundation. Similar construction with earthfast posts is called stolpteknik . and Palisade construction where many vertical wall timbers or planks have their feet buried in the ground called post in ground or earthfast ...
In Spanish-speaking countries such as Cuba and Puerto Rico, they are called ingenios. Both words mean engine (from latin ingenium). The word engenho usually only referred to the mill, but it could also describe the area as a whole including land, a mill, the people who farmed and who had a knowledge of sugar production, and a crop of sugar cane ...
The word has its origin in the Latin trapetum that means oil mill. [2] From the Sicilian language trappitu [3] the term, crossing the Mozarab Valencia, with its typical change of termination to «-ig» via the Catalan language (trapig-Gandía, 1536-, trapitz de canyamel-Mallorca, 1466-) [4] has arrived to the other languages of the Iberian peninsula as trapiche. [5]
A stave is a narrow length of wood with a slightly bevelled edge to form the sides of barrels, tanks, tubs, vats and pipelines, originally handmade by coopers. [1] They have been used in the construction of large holding tanks and penstocks at hydro power developments . [ 2 ]