Author : William Henry Doolittle
Release : 2017-02-20
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Download or read book Inventions in the Century written by William Henry Doolittle. This book was released on 2017-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventions In the Century by William Henry Doolittle. Inventions and Discoveries, Agriculture and its Implements, the Greatest Agriculturists, Chemistry, Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Steam and Steam Engines, Engineering and Transportation, Electricity, Hidraulics, etc... Combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. Tull's machines were much improved by James Cooke, a clergyman of Lancashire, England; and also in the last decade of the eighteenth century by Baldwin and Wells of Norfolk, England. Invent and experiment with seeding machines. The nineteenth century found the great mass of farmers everywhere sowing their wheat and other grains by throwing them into the air by hand, to be met by the gusts of wind and blown into hollows and on ridges, on stones and thorny places.