A brick building housed the mill’s steam engines. The Diamond’s landmark brick chimney was 136 feet high. A 150,000-barrel warehouse and a sawmill completed the Mississippi River-bordering plant.

Spinning mills used 'line shafting', which is the means by which the power of the steam engine is transmitted along ... This animation depicts a spinning mill like that found at Quarry Bank ...

It was also the first mill anywhere to use a steam engine, which pumped water onto a waterwheel. By 1800 Manchester had emerged as the world's first industrial city and the centre of the world ...