Mill
Mill has several meanings:
- Mill (factory)[?] - a place of business for making articles of manufacture, e.g. a Textile mill[?] is a factory for making textiles.
- Mill (grinding)[?] - a mill powered by wind or water, for the grinding or pulverizing of raw materials, e.g. wheat, with the help of mill stones
- Mill (money)[?] - a tenth of a cent / penny .....
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spectroscope, the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, anesthetics,
match, the sewing machine, and the bicycle. And now, we said, we
forces of nature. We must rest on our achievements. The nineteenth
century.html">century. Many of us, perhaps most of us, felt in that way. We had
system: a spinal cord beneath the ocean, secondary centres,--
and ramifications extending throughout civilization. All at once, by
wire stretched over our heads, carrying force to a vast metallic
men, of a score of horses, of a team of elephants. The lightning is
more surprises in this century! A voice whispers, What next?
It will not do for us to boast about our young days and what they had
show, and, strange as it may seem, there is a certain satisfaction in
a button and your parlor or bedroom is instantly flooded with light.html">light,
and steel, and the brimstone match. It gives me an almost proud
hand or not employed, to light our whale-oil lamp by blowing a live
our faces until we were on the verge of apoplexy. I love to tell of
semi-barbarous destitution of all modern comforts and conveniences
you find us.
Think of it! All my boyish shooting was done with a flint-lock gun;
people had just got hold of. We ancients can make a grand display of
well as if they had the plus sign before them.
I am afraid that old people found life rather a dull business in the
who, poor man, could not have read.html">read a wicked novel, nor enjoyed a
were no pleasant firesides, for there were no chimneys. There were
them if there were, with his dimmed eyes, nor hear them read, very
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