Architect, Engineer. He was a great flour mill designer, including the revolutionary Red Mill which was built for the Hervey Ely Company in the 1820's. It ran to five stories, with every procedure automated so that at no time did the material or product have to touch human hands, and was thus considered far more sanitary than flour produced by the usual method of the time.
"Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
"Dalzell, Robert M., inventor, b. near Belfast, Ireland, in 1793; d. in Rochester, N.Y., 22 Jan., 1873. His ancestors were Scotch, and his father, John Dalzell, a leader n the Irish rebellion of 1798, in consequence of which the old family mansion was burned, and he forced to put to sea in an open boat. He was rescued by a vessel bound for New York, where he settled and where his family soon followed him. When Robert was about thirty three years of age he removed to Rochester. He was a millwright, unusually skilful and ingenious, and many of the flour-mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the "elevator system" in handling and stowing grain, which is now in general use."
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"Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
"Dalzell, Robert M., inventor, b. near Belfast, Ireland, in 1793; d. in Rochester, N.Y., 22 Jan., 1873. His ancestors were Scotch, and his father, John Dalzell, a leader n the Irish rebellion of 1798, in consequence of which the old family mansion was burned, and he forced to put to sea in an open boat. He was rescued by a vessel bound for New York, where he settled and where his family soon followed him. When Robert was about thirty three years of age he removed to Rochester. He was a millwright, unusually skilful and ingenious, and many of the flour-mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the "elevator system" in handling and stowing grain, which is now in general use."
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Architect, Engineer. He was a great flour mill designer, including the revolutionary Red Mill which was built for the Hervey Ely Company in the 1820's. It ran to five stories, with every procedure automated so that at no time did the material or product have to touch human hands, and was thus considered far more sanitary than flour produced by the usual method of the time.
"Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
"Dalzell, Robert M., inventor, b. near Belfast, Ireland, in 1793; d. in Rochester, N.Y., 22 Jan., 1873. His ancestors were Scotch, and his father, John Dalzell, a leader n the Irish rebellion of 1798, in consequence of which the old family mansion was burned, and he forced to put to sea in an open boat. He was rescued by a vessel bound for New York, where he settled and where his family soon followed him. When Robert was about thirty three years of age he removed to Rochester. He was a millwright, unusually skilful and ingenious, and many of the flour-mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the "elevator system" in handling and stowing grain, which is now in general use."
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"Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887"
"Dalzell, Robert M., inventor, b. near Belfast, Ireland, in 1793; d. in Rochester, N.Y., 22 Jan., 1873. His ancestors were Scotch, and his father, John Dalzell, a leader n the Irish rebellion of 1798, in consequence of which the old family mansion was burned, and he forced to put to sea in an open boat. He was rescued by a vessel bound for New York, where he settled and where his family soon followed him. When Robert was about thirty three years of age he removed to Rochester. He was a millwright, unusually skilful and ingenious, and many of the flour-mills in the city of Rochester were built under his supervision. He invented and introduced the "elevator system" in handling and stowing grain, which is now in general use."
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