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Threshing machine from 1881. The Swing Riots in the UK were partly a result of the threshing machine. Following years of war, high taxes and low wages, farm labourers finally revolted in 1830. They had faced unemployment for years, due to the widespread introduction of the threshing machine and the policy of enclosing fields. No longer were ...
Andrew Meikle (5 May 1719 – 27 November 1811) [1] was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat. He also had a hand in assisting Firbeck in the invention of the Rotherham Plough.
This machine did not work very well, but it demonstrated the superiority of the rotary motion and pointed to the ways in which thrashing machines should be constructed. [5] True industrialization of threshing began in 1786 with the invention of the threshing machine by Scot Andrew Meikle.
Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819 – December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.He founded the J. I. Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation. [1]
1936 Case Model CC Tractor Preferred share of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, issued 29. August 1911 A Case row-crop model, circa 1940s Case Model 830 Case Model 2090 The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment .
One of their inventions was the Avery Thresher, a popular threshing machine in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The thresher was driven from the flywheel of a steam traction engine. A belt from the flywheel drove a wheel found on the thresher, separating the wheat kernels from the wheat stalks.
The Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, Indiana was an American pioneering producer of many types of agricultural machinery, most notably threshing machines and large tractors. Started in 1853 manufacturing threshers and later moved on to steam engines. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased Advance-Rumley in 1931. The company's main works ...
Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine [23] Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956), engineer and advocate for women's employment rights, was the founding president of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain. Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines [24]