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  1. > ... watermills remained far more efficient and reliable for several decades into the coal era, and there was never a shortage of potential sites for new water-powered textile mills. However rural workers who lived along England’s riverbanks were far more independent-minded and more likely to abandon the mills when working conditions became too onerous, vs. often-desperate urban workers..
    znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-te
    #BrianTokar #AndreasMalm #OnTechnology #WaterMills #SteamEngines #TextileMills

  2. Want to explore the historic mills of Anglesey? I've just updated my Google Map of Anglesey Windmills, adding corn watermills, fulling and woollen mills, tidal mills and industrial/farming mills. You can see the list of mills at anglesey-history.co.uk/other-m and the map of them at google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1

    #anglesey #ynysmon #history #hanes #windmills #watermills #fullingmill #woollenmill