Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Size Reduction from the Stone Age to the Space Age -- Chimpanzees and Nut Cracking -- Hominids and Size Reduction -- The Earliest Technologies -- Increasing Population and New Commodities -- Landmark Innovations in Grinding -- The Link Between Energy and Size Reduction -- The Path of Technology -- The Prevalence of Size Reduction -- CHAPTER 2: The Science and the Scientists -- The Role of Science -- The Scientists and Their Contributions -- Peter Ritter von Rittinger -- Friedrich Kick -- Fred Bond -- Paul Rosin and Erich Rammler -- Rosin-Rammler and John Bennett -- Oliver Evans -- John Van Nostrand Dorr -- Eli Whitney Blake -- Hans Rumpf -- Klaus Schonert -- Immanuel Nobel -- Melvin Cook -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3: Hand Stones -- Muscle Power for Bread -- Mortars and Pestles -- Saddlestone Mills -- Rotary Querns -- Muscle Power for Mining -- Querns for Grinding Ores -- Hammers and Gads and Fire Setting -- Manual Crushing -- Manual Drilling -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4: Water Wheels, Windmills, and Beyond -- Grinding Grains into Flour -- WaterPower for Grinding -- The Water Wheel -- Wind Power for Grinding -- The Automatic Flour Mill -- Steam Power and the First Roller Mills -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5: Stamp Mills and Crushers -- Stamp Mills for Ore Breakage -- The Advent of Steam Power -- Cornish Rolls -- Blake Jaw Crushers -- Gates Gyratory Crushers -- Edison Giant Rolls -- Crushers in the 20th Century -- Primary Crushers -- Single-Roll Crushers -- Secondary Crushers -- Cone Crushers -- Impact Crushers -- Hammer Mills -- Vertical-Shaft Impact Crushers -- Coal Crushers -- Cryogenic Crushers -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6: Roller Mills -- Arrastras -- Edge Roller Mills -- The Huntington Mill -- The Maxecon Mill -- The Raymond Mill -- The Fuller Mill -- Innovations in Roller Mills.

Fixed Rollers and a Spinning Bowl -- Track-Guided Rollers -- Classifiers -- High-Pressure Double-Roll Compactors -- High-Pressure Grinding Rolls -- Other Applications of Multiple-Roller Mills -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 7: Tumbling Mills -- Introduction to Tumbling Mills -- Fundamental Factors Common to All Tumbling Mills -- The Cement Industry -- The Cyanide Process -- The Flotation Process -- The Evolution of Tumbling Mills -- Tumbling Mills in the 19th Century -- Tumbling Mills for Making Cement -- Tumbling Mills for Grinding Ore -- The Rise of Ball Mills -- The Role of the Mill Manufacturers -- Rod Mills -- Ball Milling after World War II -- Multiple-Compartment Tube Mills -- Ball Loadings -- Mill Division Heads -- Classifying Liners -- Two Ball Mills in One Shell with an Intermediate Separator -- Grinding Coal in Ball Mills -- Autogenous Mills -- Primary Mills -- Wet Mills -- Dry Mills -- The Growth of SAG Milling -- Tumbling Mills: Evolution of Design and Manufacture -- Structural Design of Mills -- Materials for Wearing Surfaces -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 8: Fine-Grinding Mills -- Slow-Speed Mills -- Vertical Stirred Ball Mills -- High-Speed Colloid Mills -- Pin Mills -- Medium-Speed Mills -- High-Speed Mills -- Ball Mills with Fixed Shells and High-Speed Stirrers -- Vertical Peg Mills -- Horizontal Disk Mills -- Ball Mills with Shells Moving at High Speeds -- Vibrating Mills -- Centrifugal Mills -- Nutating Mills -- Jet Mills -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9: Classifiers -- Hydraulic Classifiers -- Rake Classifiers -- Hydrocyclones -- The Early Years: 1890-1950 -- The Rise to Dominance of the Cyclone: 1950-1970 -- Very Small Hydrocyclones -- Air Classifiers -- Static Separators -- Dynamic Separators -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 10: Explosive Rock Breakage -- Black Powder: The First Explosive -- The Rise of Black Powder -- Safety Fuses.

Explosives in the Mid-19th Century -- Nitroglycerin: The First High-Energy Explosive -- Initiation of Explosions -- The Dynamite Era -- ANFO: Powerful and Safe -- Initiation Methods -- Drilling -- Rock Drills in the 19th Century -- Advances in Rock Drilling in the 20th Century -- Blasting: A Part of Total Rock Breakage Systems -- Modeling Blasting Processes -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 11: Size Reduction in the 21st Century -- New Scenarios for Size Reduction -- Future Prospects -- Energy -- Scale-Up -- Technology -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.