Excerpt from Flour Milling: A Theoretical and Practical Handbook of Flour Manufacture for Millers, Millwrights, Flour-Milling Engineers, and Others Engaged in the Flour-Milling Industry The want of serious scientific literature on flour milling is noticeable even in the German language, in which dialect during all the time which has elapsed since the appearance of. Professor Kick's book not one objective scientific work has been published. As a characteristic feature of the German literature of the last few years (baumgartner - 1902, Baum gartner and Graf - l 90 4, Baumgartner - l 90 7, Pappenheim - l 903, Ketten bach one may point out the absence of descriptions of English and American machinery. I refrain from judging whether this is a result of the Germans not being acquainted with the machinery of English and American manufacture, or whether it is to be ascribed to the peculiar German patriotism in science. Be this as it may, the German authors do not give a broad scientific technical statement to their readers when they omit to mention English and American machinery. Having been for twenty years engaged in this industry as a theoretical and practical worker, and having studied the technology of milling in Russia, Germany, Austria, Hungary, France, Belgium, England, and the United States, I made up my mind to write a book on this subject, keeping to the most scientific basis. The object I had in view was to produce a practical and theoretical text-book for operative millers and for milling engineers, who have, to construct flour mills and to design flour milling machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.