Ingraham clocks are collectible clocks manufactured by Connecticut clock maker Elias Ingraham. The Ingraham Company are famed for the high quality of... Toggle navigation
Definition of mill. 1 : a building provided with machinery for grinding grain into flour. 2a : a machine or apparatus (as a quern) for grinding grainb : a machine for crushing or comminuting. 3 : a machine that manufactures by the continuous repetition of some simple action.
A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Before the invention of the sawmill, boards were made in various manual ways, either rived and planed, hewn, or more often hand sawn by two men with a whipsaw, one above and another in a saw pit below. The earliest known mechanical mill is the Hierapolis sawmill, a Roman water-powered stone mill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor dating back to the 3rd century AD. Other water-powered mills followed and by the 11th century they were wi