In 1594,Parker d. Robbins of( the u. S), built the first sawmill.
He was granted a patent on his crankshaft invention in the 1870's Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Corneliszoon The first mill was James Sutter's and James Marshall's HELLO.
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