Category: Biographies

Dr E Cora Hind (1861-1942)

Ella Cora Hind was born in Toronto in 1861 to parents Edwin and Jane, with Huguenot and English stock on...

Amy B Smith (b 1962)

Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, Amy Smith is an inventor, teacher and founder of MIT D-Lab and Senior Lecturer of Mechanical...

Margaret E Knight (1838-1914)

Margaret was born in York, Maine – one of a large family and was, according to historian Henri Petroski, known...

Robin and Simpkin: millers and thieves in the Canterbury Tales

Millers in medieval times were often stereotyped as rogues and thieves. Two vivid descriptions of contemporary medieval millers appear in...

Thomas Cogan (1545-1607): Brown bread is good for the digestion

Thomas Cogan (Coghan) observed in his book The Haven of Health (published in 1584) that: Browne bread made of the...

John Figgis Morton (1872-1958)

or Mr Hovis and the triumph of advertising brown bread Hovis is a distinctive brand of brown bread.  However, it...

Hannah Wilkinson Slater (1774-1812)

Hannah Wilkinson Slater (15-12-1774 – 02-10-1812) Hannah Wilkinson Slater was an early American pioneer and inventor. She grew up in...

Sybilla Righton Masters (c 1676 -1720)

Sybilla Righton Masters can lay claim to being the first person living in the American colonies to be awarded an...

Maria Telkes (1900–1995)

An interesting candidate for this archive – her links to milling are somewhat tenuous – the link being green energy...

Robert Stone (1852-1918)

Diaries of a Country Miller at Pangbourne, Berkshire Robert Stone was baptised on 28 February 1852 in High Wycombe, the...

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