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WE may search in vain for dates from which to calculate the earliest period at which the principles of accumulating power, and transmitting it for employment in mills, were first introduced, and it is equally impossible to trace. Consecutively the progressive developments that have taken place from the days of antiquity to the present improved state of the arts. Perhaps the earliest introduction of machinery was in the pro cesses for the preparation of food, as we read of the Egyptians and Babylonians, and other nations in Europe and Asia, having mills for grinding corn from the earliest period of historical records. Hesiod and Pliny both describe the most primitive method of the preparation of com, a method still further illus trated among the pictorial remains of the Egyptians, viz. Pounding in a mortar.
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WE may search in vain for dates from which to calculate the earliest period at which the principles of accumulating power, and transmitting it for employment in mills, were first introduced, and it is equally impossible to trace. Consecutively the progressive developments that have taken place from the days of antiquity to the present improved state of the arts. Perhaps the earliest introduction of machinery was in the pro cesses for the preparation of food, as we read of the Egyptians and Babylonians, and other nations in Europe and Asia, having mills for grinding corn from the earliest period of historical records. Hesiod and Pliny both describe the most primitive method of the preparation of com, a method still further illus trated among the pictorial remains of the Egyptians, viz. Pounding in a mortar.
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