Mills of Croatia
Croatia is a fairly barren destination as far as mills are concerned. The fields are not full of corn needing to be milled,
but there are olive trees to be found everywhere, meaning that there are olive presses in greater abundance than corn mills.
Rijeka
Trg Ivana Koblera:
oil pressing mill
- consists of two powered edge runner stones, set up as a fountain
Rijeka, October 15th 2006
Rijeka, October 15th 2006
[Search Muggeridge Collection]Trogir
Mlinice Pantan:
watermill
Run as a restaurant and lodgings.
Externally a very poor reproduction of a waterwheel had once been set up, but now dislodged and derelict.
Trogir, October 21th 2006
Trogir, October 21th 2006
Trogir, October 21th 2006
Trogir, October 21th 2006
[Search Muggeridge Collection]Zagreb
Energy transformation hall, Zagreb technical museum:
horizontal watermill
Rebuilt simple horizontal watermill - actually from Slovenia.
Zagreb, October 18th 2006
Zagreb, October 18th 2006
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Energy transformation hall, Zagreb technical museum:
vertical watermill
Rebuilt vertical waterwheel, driving a simple mill on a hurst frame.
Zagreb, October 18th 2006
Zagreb, October 18th 2006
[Search Muggeridge Collection]Zagreb
Energy transformation hall, Zagreb technical museum:
display of windmill models
Display of model windmills, illustrating applications of wind power, not specific to Croatia.
Zagreb, October 18th 2006
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