Sentences with phrase «earliest grain mills»
The earliest grain mills used large round stones to grind the grain.
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In their own words: «With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint - hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times.»
Water power provided the early settlers with not only transportation, but also the ability to mill corn and other grains, to saw and shape wood from the forests, and to loom textiles from wool, cotton and flax.