WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/427717596

Ben's mill

Shows how, in northeastern Vermont, Ben Thresher operates his nineteenth-century, waterpowered mill to provide tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. Tells how, almost a century and a half old, his mill and mill technology were critical to America's development.

Open All Close All

type

about

contributor

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Shows how, in northeastern Vermont, Ben Thresher operates his nineteenth-century, waterpowered mill to provide tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. Tells how, almost a century and a half old, his mill and mill technology were critical to America's development."
  • "Shows how, in northeastern Vermont, Ben Thresher operates his nineteenth-century, waterpowered mill to provide tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. Tells how, almost a century and a half old, his mill and mill technology were critical to America's development."@en
  • "A depiction of the modern use of a water-driven turbine by Vermont craftsman Ben Thresher. He discusses the use, maintenance and repair of the early 1900's equipment, and he demonstrates by fashioning a large wooden tub and a hauling sledge."@en
  • "In northeastern Vermont, Ben Thresher operates his nineteenth-century water-powered mill to provide tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. This portrait of Ben Thresher and the workaday world of his mill is more than a bit of New England fork history. Mill technology and millwrights like Ben were crucial to American's settlement, and through Ben's Mill we come to understand their significance to their communities, even today."
  • "Takes you to northeastern Vermont where Ben Thrasher operates a 19th century water-powered mill that helps him create tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. Almost 150 years old and still serving the needs of the community, Ben Thrasher's mill and technology were critical to the pioneers' settlement in America."
  • "Shows the use of a water-wheel by Vermont craftsman Benj. A. Thresher."@en
  • "Shows how, in northeastern Vermont, Ben Thresher operates his nineteenth-century, water-powered mill to provide tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. Tells how, almost a century and a half old, his mill and mill technology were critical to America's development."@en
  • "Ben Thresher's water-powered mill in Barnet, Vermont forms a link between the age of crafts and the industrial era."@en
  • "Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rurual Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of craft and the age of industry. Ben still uses his machine to turn out items such as watering tubs and horsedrawn sleds for his neighbors in the farming community."@en
  • "A depiction of the modern use of a water-driven turbine by Vermont craftsman Ben Thresher. He discusses the use, maintenance and repair of the equipment, which dates from 1848, and with it fashions a large wooden tub and a hauling sledge."@en
  • "Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of craft and the age of industry. Ben still uses his machine to turn out items such as watering tubs and horsedrawn sleds for his neighbors in the farming community."

director

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "History"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"@en
  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en
  • "History"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Ben's mill"@en
  • "Ben's mill"

workExample