George Washington's Gristmill: The Oliver Evans System

Join Steve Bashore (Director of Historic Trades at Mount Vernon) as he explains how the Oliver Evan's system, an early automated milling system works at George Washington's Gristmill.
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[@Whelessry]

This is freaking cool

[@the_eternal_student]

Its a shame that unskilled laborers or skilled laborers are not taught or do not learn to make the machines that replace them. Thomas Jefferson at least taught some his slaves to be skilled laborers, in spite of the fact that he had sex with at least one of the female slaves.