Monday, August 5, 2013

Agricultural Technology 150 Years Ago

Scientific American looks back:

REAPING MACHINE:

Using a machine to mow a hay field was at first said to be “impossible and absurd to the last degree.” Inventors eventually developed a wide variety of agricultural machines that had different purposes and abilities.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

Scientific American, November 7, 1863
More at the link up top.

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