Gabriel 150 years - Flipbook - Page 11
Kjærs Mølle prior to the fire in 1855. The power to operate 24 carding and spinning machines on the first
floor was supplied by a watermill on the ground floor. There was a weaving room on the second floor with 14
manually operated looms. A two-storey building with flats for the workers was also built, and the dye-works,
storeroom, additional living quarters and stables were installed in the existing buildings. There were also a
fulling mill and a drying room.
When steam engines replaced waterpower in the last half of the 1800s, busy factories were characterised by
smoking chimneys. The last steam engine at Kjærs Mølle was retired around 1950.
1850-1855
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