Description | Wind rape oil mill at Wakefield executed for Mr Roodhouse in 1755. Sectional elevation, 1:48. Inscribed: (F) Designed and drawn by J Smeaton, 1754. In Mr Smeaton's Short account of inventions, 1756 (art. 15) it is stated that his plan of double motion to a windmill (see sketch folio 3) had, in principle, been applied to the stampers and fire work of the above mill with success |