Jiaodaluo or Foot Treadle Flour Sifter (Chinese: 脚打罗; pinyin: jiaodaluó; lit. 'foot hit sift') were foot-operated pedal implements that were used to sift flour in China.[1][2] The foot treadle flour sifter had long been in use in China. An illustration of the machine is depicted in Song Yingxing's encyclopedia Tiangong Kaiwu written in 1637.[2]

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  1. ^ Hong-Sen Yan & Marco Ceccarelli (2009), International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings of HMM 2008, Springer, p. 238, ISBN 978-1-4020-9484-2
  2. ^ a b Lu, Yongxing (23 August 2016). A History of Chinese Science and Technology. Vol. 3. Springer. p. 284. ISBN 978-3662513897.