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>We're working on the site of a ca. 1830-1873 cracker bakery. It was known
>to have had a steam engine from the 1850s. Can anyone furnish or suggest
>site information or citations and period literature on:
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>1. 19th century cracker baking, particularly the configuration of ovens,
>etc. (we have an apparent French drain under the rear of the proposed
>oven locations, for instance); and
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>2. mid 19th-century steam engines, particularly features associated with
>them on archaeological sites. We have a likely place for ours, a
>brick floor with some more-or-less vertical iron pipes or poles, and a pit
>or catch basin covered by a slab.
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>Thank you,
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>Tim Dennee
>Alexandria Archaeology
Noel Deerr (1949) _The History of Sugar_ (Chapman and Hall Ltd., London)
has a fairly extensive discussion of steam engines used on sugar
plantations and is relatively easy to find. Less accessible but probably
as or more useful, although I haven't looked in it for steam engines, is
Park Benjamin (ed.) (1880) _Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics: A
Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering and the Mechanical Arts_ (D. Appleton
and Company, NY).
Chris Clement
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