The spread of purpose-built manufactories like Quarry Bank Mill separated economic power and population, increasingly so as the West got richer.

ECONOMIST: A game of catch-up

The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.

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Glimpses of leading thinkers and the human values they argued for include Immanuel Kant (moral and intellectual autonomy), Benjamin Constant (protection from arbitrary power) and John Stuart Mill (promotion of human individuality).

ECONOMIST: Liberalism

As well as the more well known mills using water wheels, such as the one that stands as an ornamental feature at Llangollen restaurant, the Corn Mill, and the historic Rossett Mill, there are clues that water power has been harnessed elsewhere.

BBC: Rossett Mill is an historic landmark in the town

The project, at an old water mill at Neen Sollars, Shropshire hopes to generate power for 10 homes by May.

BBC: Shropshire

What started off as one sugar mill is now 11 with two refineries producing sugar, ethanol and power.

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