Reviews for Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History

The average rating for Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-08-20 00:00:00 Brian Carruthers A beautiful photography book with commentary about Mills - wind and water powered. This will be less of a book review and more of a series of observations and fun facts as I read through it. (Note: If you suspect you would like this kind of book, I bet you would.) For my fellow geeky friends, info on the Fitz water wheel company whose best year by number of installs was surprisingly 1940. Why 1940? used to power/recharge the Resistance short wave radio in the field. The craftmanship on the wood gearing and spokes of these mill museums look more like fine furniture than what a working mill would be like.....

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-12 00:00:00 Jared Parker About two thirds of this book deals with working or faux working grist mills mostly from the Eastern US that use water or wind, the last third deals with mills remodeled for living. It's a pretty coffee table book very much in the modern architectural style, everything clean and dramatically lit, a bit hard to believe in the case of working mills. Harsh lighting and moving machinery are an ugly combination as witnessed by the horrible accidents that happened in these old mills. The text covers the workings of these mills in fair detail, I hadn't realized how automated late 18th century mills were, they are a bit like being in a giant cuckoo clock, impressive examples of the early industrial age. The last bit on remodeled mills was not that interesting to me, nice pictures but I'm more into tech history. While not very technical, a nice introduction to grain mills for those with a grinding need to know.