Do not pretend Evan's mills were steam powered

[cedounet]

Theuy defo were not in his book.

[tbpassin]

sourdough-history.tex

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I don't think this new material captures the historical development well enough, although I'm not completely clear what the intention is. Evans didn't just invent some "mill devices". He devised a system of continuous mill production that didn't need human intervention. The Wikipedia entry for Oliver Evans expresses this reasonably well. Oliver's continuous production was a separate revolution from the use of steam power (which as we know Oliver and his brothers also made big contributions to).

[cedounet]

Thanks for the feedback, do you have a proposal text? I won't speak for @hendricius but I think the intention was just to explain that industrial revolution (together with Pasteur work) was a turning point between artisanal miller-baker towards a more mass produced bread.

I just intended to correct what was clearly wrong (i.e. his first machines were not steam powered...).

[tbpassin]

How about this:

Industrialization of the grist milling process, starting in the late 18th century with Oliver Evans (\num{1785}) and his mill design for continuous hands-off flour production ~\cite{evans+mill}, and evolving to steam-powered mills, made possible significant advancements in bread production.

[cedounet]

I took it pretty much verbatim. Thanks!

[hendricius]

Thanks! Nice changes.

[hendricius]

@tbpassin your first contribution to the book 🥳 - @cedounet thanks for adding them!