Making Mill City by Robert M. Frame III - 9780816667604

Name: Making Mill City by Robert M. Frame III - 9780816667604
Brand: University of Minnesota Press

University of Minnesota Press

Making Mill CityFlour and Fortune in Minneapolis\nAuthor(s): Robert M. Frame III\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816667604, 978-0816667604\nSynopsis\nA richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide and forever changed the culture and architecture of Minneapolis\n\nAmong the most consequential advances of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of the modern roller mill, which sent the traditional millstone into obsolescence and fundamentally changed the production of a key ingredient to feeding the world. The culture and landscape of its hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was altered as well, and Making Mill City tells the story of how revolutionary technologies originating at St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River put Minneapolis on the map and cemented its global status as \""Mill City.\""\n\nWith deep historical detail and abund.