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Milling is not necessarily confined to grain. While gristmills are one of the oldest types of mills, many windmills in the Netherlands were poldermills to drai
by saalweachter 6y ago
Milling is not necessarily confined to grain.
While gristmills are one of the oldest types of mills, many windmills in the Netherlands were poldermills to drain low-lying land, and the industrial revolution brought us a variety of carpet mills and powdermills and everything mills, although they were mostly based on water mills, and steel mills, which don't even involve turbines.