Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Mills of the Plenty
- In
- 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply
- Imprint
- Engineering Heritage Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2017, pp. 511-536
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922107923
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.385415768511329
- Subject
- History of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology
- Description
Victorian flour mills.
- Abstract
"Where have all the flour mills gone?" Over 280 flour mills existed in Victoria at one time or another. At least 32 of these were water powered. One water mill survives relatively intact, but most of the others ceased operating within a couple of decades of their commencement in the mid-nineteenth century. Why did the wheels stop turning and what became of them? This paper looks at the history of the early water-powered flour mills near Melbourne and considers some of the factors that may have been influential on their early success or failure and the possible causes of their ultimate demise.
- Source
- cohn 2018
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- 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2017), 536 pp. Details