5 sentences with 'mill'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mill and other words derived from it.
• « The difference in speed between grinding grain by hand and using a mill was dramatic: it could take almost a day to grind enough flour to make bread for a family, but a mill could grind fifty pounds of grain in less than half an hour. »
• « The slaves had to cut the long stalks of cane by hand and then carry them to a mill, where the cane juice was extracted. »
• « In the 1790s, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Slater persuaded several American merchants, including wealthy Providence industrialist Moses Brown, to finance and build a water-powered cotton mill based on British models. »
• « Slater's knowledge of both technology and factory organisation made him the founder of America's first truly successful cotton mill. »
• « Together they raised $400,000 and, in 1814, established a textile mill in Waltham and a second one in the same town shortly thereafter. »