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The first known European seed drill was attributed to Camillo Torello and patented by the Venetian Senate in 1566. A seed drill was described in detail by Tadeo Cavalina of Bologna in 1602. [4] In England, the seed drill was further refined by Jethro Tull in 1701 in the Agricultural Revolution. However, seed drills of this and successive types ...
Tull's Seed drill (Horse-hoeing husbandry, 4th edition, 1762 [9]) Tull invented some machinery for the purpose of carrying out his system of drill husbandry, about 1733. His first invention was a drill-plough to sow wheat and turnip seed in drills, three rows at a time.
Drill plough in The complete Farmer, plate X "The gentlemen abroad who are now promoting the new husbandry, have gone into the practice of planting three rows upon every ridge, supporting that to be the best method; and the drill-ploughs invented by M. Du Hamel, and Lullin, are constructed to sow three rows.
Jethro Tull (agriculturist) (1674–1741), English agriculturist, often credited with inventing the seed drill Jethro Tull (band) , a British rock group named after the agriculturist Topics referred to by the same term
Jethro Tull, improved the seed drill in 1701. 1701: Seed drill improved by Jethro Tull (1674–1741). 18th century: of the horse-drawn hoe and scarifier by Jethro Tull [2] [3] [4] 1780s: Selective breeding and artificial selection pioneered by Robert Bakewell (1725–1795). [5] 1842: Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer developed by John ...
[27] [5] In an interview in 2006, Anderson said that he had not realised it was the name of "a dead guy who invented the seed drill – I thought our agent had made it up". He said if he could change one thing in his life, he would go back and change the name of the band to something less historical.
From October 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Charles A. Yamarone joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -5.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a 24.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
There he passed the time devising an improved seed drill by sketching a design in the sand. [1] After the war he worked on a 160-acre (0.65 km 2) farm his brother John had bought for the two of them. Robert continued to work on several inventions, and, during the winters when the farm was idle, he worked in a Galesburg, Illinois, machine shop ...