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A History of the County of Shropshire
… c. 1840 the local brick and roof tile industry boomed; new machines and processes became available, and the coming of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… kept steam engines there and used them in ploughing and threshing under contract to local farmers. 44 A malthouse was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… never changed by local farmers, who produced it by a light threshing of the top of the crop. 26 The heath was perhaps by …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Michael Stirling, who lived in the village, invented the threshing-mill, upon which many improvements have been … are generally commodious, and on two of the farms are threshing-mills, of which one is driven by water; the lands … is a foundry, which supplies most of the iron-work for threshing-mills and other machinery used in the parish; and …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… lime and stone for the works, and stones for the war machines, as he bought and purveyed victuals for the inhabitants 2 It is certain that some of the war machines at least were discharged by means of gunpowder, for …