Field mill (carriage)

Pompeo Targone's field mill, from Vittorio Zonca's treatise (1607)
The field mill in the Chinese book Qiqi Tushuo (1627), by Johann Schreck and Wang Zheng

A field mill, also known as a camp mill, was a premodern vehicle which acted as a mobile mill used for grinding grains, which had the very practical use of feeding a moving army.[1]

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