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The advent of agriculture changed the lives of the people. The Nomads started to settle, built villages and kept cattle. But even in the advanced civilizations the grains were still ground by hand between simple grindstones.
The process of flour milling dates back to Egyptian and earlier times. Primitive people ground wheat by using stones to pound the grain and release the edible seeds from their hulls.
Excavations and the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians indicate that the primitive milling implements were first wooden, then stone, and later on metal mortars, in which the grain was crush by blows from pestles.
The Romans were no longer satisfied with this: in order to supply the growing urban population with flour they ground the corn on core mills. The first mill was developed in 300 BC. The milestone were first hand operated, then driven by animals and finally driven by waterpower.
And around 25 BC the architect and engineer Vitruvius described a water mill in which a paddle-wheel turned the millstones by way of a gearwheel.
This invention of the ancient world was used again by the millers of the Middle Ages, but in the twelfth century a new construction reached the European continent: the windmill, that probably originated in the Orient.
It is not known whether the Crusaders brought the invention home with them from the Arabian world. All we can say for certain is that windmills were already turning in far-off England around the year 1150.
Wind flour mills together with the water driven flourmills, remained active until the late 19th century.
The advent of steam power greatly improved the efficiency of flour mills. In 1786, two 37-kW steam engines were connected to drive 20 stone mills at the Albion grain mill in London and for the next hundred years, grain was ground mainly in steam driven querns.
In the late 1800s, a revolution occurred with the rapid introduction and adoption of roller milling technology.
The timing and success of this transformation are attributable to an intricate combination of agriculture, social and technological circumstance occurring principally across countries, Hungary, America and Britain.
Flour milling was revolutionized in America by the introduction from France and Hungary of the new process for milling.
In 2001 a handful of companies including General Mills and Nabisco, controlled the vast majority of American flour milling.
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- Ancient Of History Of Bread
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- History Of Cats
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- The Neolithic Era
The Neolithic Era or New Stone Age began somewhere around 10,000 BC and continued to 3,000 BC. During the Neolithic era, farming was invented. The invention did not occur all at once. In fact, it evolved gradually during these years 3500 years. The Neolithic...
- Ancient Hot Cereal
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The History of Flour Milling
The advent of agriculture changed the lives of the people. The Nomads started to settle, built villages and kept cattle. But even in the advanced civilizations the grains were still ground by hand between simple grindstones.
The process of flour milling dates back to Egyptian and earlier times. Primitive people ground wheat by using stones to pound the grain and release the edible seeds from their hulls.
The Romans were no longer satisfied with this: in order to supply the growing urban population with flour they ground the corn on core mills. The first mill was developed in 300 BC. The milestone were first hand operated, then driven by animals and finally driven by waterpower.
And around 25 BC the architect and engineer Vitruvius described a water mill in which a paddle-wheel turned the millstones by way of a gearwheel.
This invention of the ancient world was used again by the millers of the Middle Ages, but in the twelfth century a new construction reached the European continent: the windmill, that probably originated in the Orient.
It is not known whether the Crusaders brought the invention home with them from the Arabian world. All we can say for certain is that windmills were already turning in far-off England around the year 1150.
Wind flour mills together with the water driven flourmills, remained active until the late 19th century.
The advent of steam power greatly improved the efficiency of flour mills. In 1786, two 37-kW steam engines were connected to drive 20 stone mills at the Albion grain mill in London and for the next hundred years, grain was ground mainly in steam driven querns.
In the late 1800s, a revolution occurred with the rapid introduction and adoption of roller milling technology.
The timing and success of this transformation are attributable to an intricate combination of agriculture, social and technological circumstance occurring principally across countries, Hungary, America and Britain.
Flour milling was revolutionized in America by the introduction from France and Hungary of the new process for milling.
In 2001 a handful of companies including General Mills and Nabisco, controlled the vast majority of American flour milling.
The History of Flour Milling
- Cereal Flake Breakfast
In 1894, flaked breakfast cereal was accidently invented by Seventh Day Adventist Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. He and his younger brother Will Kellogg found a new way of processing corn: they steamed and soften the kernels, added flavorings and then flattened...
- Ancient Of History Of Bread
The Mesopotamians were the first to try growing and eating different kinds of grains mixed with water which they baked or boiled over fire. Wheat has been found in pits where human settlements flourished 8,000 years ago. The ancient Greeks and Romans...
- History Of Cats
The cat family is called Felidae. Cats have been kept in captivity for thousands of years and have served various human needs, some utilitarian such as hunting rodents for pest control, or antelope of sport and other less so. The first domesticated cat...
- The Neolithic Era
The Neolithic Era or New Stone Age began somewhere around 10,000 BC and continued to 3,000 BC. During the Neolithic era, farming was invented. The invention did not occur all at once. In fact, it evolved gradually during these years 3500 years. The Neolithic...
- Ancient Hot Cereal
Beginning about 4000 BC, hot cereal was a favorite meal of the Incas, who inhabited South American’s west coast. Cook used quihuicha, a species of amaranth, to make a traditional meal. Amaranth actually was an ancient grain eaten for centuries in central...