Flour Manufacture: A Treatise on Millling Science and Practice. [with:] Recent Progress in Flour Manufacture, Supplement to the Treatise on Milling

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son; Printed by Virtue & Co, 1888. Large octavo (26.3 x 17 cm.), xvi, 291 pages; 76 pages. Illustrated with twenty-four fold-out plates plus another four fold-out plates to supplement. 113 woodcuts plus 54 woodcuts to supplement. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION; translated by H.H.P. Powles from the Second Enlarged and Revised Edition with Supplement. Considered the first scientific treatise on flour milling and a major contribution to what would become fluid dynamics. "The grinding of wheat into flour is mankind’s oldest continuously practiced industry and the parent of all modern industry; all modern particle breakage operations have wheat milling in their ancestry. In pursuing the need for efficient and ubiquitous milling of wheat, millers and millwrights of old developed a practical mastery of several of the fundamental engineering disciplines: fluid dynamics and aerodynamics for power generation from water wheels and windmills, mechanical engineering for the transmission of power via gearing and control mechanisms and particle handling, breakage and separation operations" (Grant M. Campbell. Roller Milling of Wheat. University of Manchester). The author, Frederick Kick (1867-1945), was a Czech architect and educator of German nationality. He was a representative of the Vienna Secession in Bohemia and after 1913 was professor of mechanical engineering and railway construction at the German Technical University in Prague. Light foxing to the half-title, otherwise internally clean and sound, with all plates present and in excellent condition. In publisher's brown cloth, gilt-titled at the spine. A fine copy. Early ownership signature to free front end paper.