MOTnews 6 (11/08/2000)

• Milling day in the province of Flemish Brabant: MOT joins in!

In order to highlight the importance of our mills in the past, the society "Living Mills" is organising "Milling Days" in the different Flemish provinces throughout the summer.

On Sunday the 27th of August the provinces of Antwerp and Flemish Brabant have their "Milling Day".

The mills of the Museum of Old Techniques (Liermolen and Tommenmolen) also take part in the action and can be visited, free of charge, from 10am untill 6pm.

• Again we have a new "what's it" on the website for you to puzzle out. Visit

the site at www.mot.be and help us identify this unidentified (non-flying) object.

TRUE OR FALSE

• We will probably never know who invented the watermill, what we do know is

that this type of mill already occurs in the first century before Christ. The windmill on the other hand is only mentioned in these parts of the world in the 12th century.

Watermills did exist a thousand years before there were windmills.

KIDS-NEWS : something to tell your children tonight

• When you say the word "mill" everyone immediately thinks of wind- and

watermills used for milling grain. It isn't commonly known that mills actually functioned as engines and therefore were applied to serve various purposes: to extract oil out of plants, to make paper, to raise water, to saw through wood or rock, to forge gigantic anchors or to bore out the muzzle in big canons.