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Gustav de Laval (1845–1913), Sweden – invented the milk separator and the milking machine; Semyon Lavochkin (1900–1960), Russia – La-series aircraft, first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut; John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900), UK – superphosphate or chemical fertilizer; Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958), U.S. – Cyclotron
It was not until after his death, however, that the company he founded marketed the first commercially practical milking machine, in 1918. [3] Together with Oscar Lamm, de Laval founded the company Alfa Laval in 1883, which was known as AB Separator until 1963 when the present name was introduced.
Improved milking machines appeared around 1883 from other farmers such as James P. Martin. [6] However, it was not until Carl Gustav de Laval, a Swedish engineer, that the first commercially successful milking machine was designed. It was a culmination of Carl Gustav de Laval and Anna Baldwin's inventions that led to the modern dairy farming ...
The Rotolactor is a largely automatic machine used for milking a large number of cows successively using a rotating platform. It was developed by the Borden Company in 1930, and is known as the "rotary milking parlor".
Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich and fled the country.
Mehring was born in Dohna (then in Kingdom of Saxony) into a family of doctors. In 1840 he graduated from high school in Dresden , after which he entered the Dresden Medical Academy [ de ] . From 1841 he studied at the University of Leipzig , graduating in 1845 and receiving the title of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery , as well as a diploma of ...
Alexander Walker Reid JP (14 September 1853 – 21 November 1938) was a 19th-century New Zealand farmer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He was notable for making Stratford the second or third New Zealand town to have an electricity supply, [1] for constructing the first steam-powered motor car in the country, and for creating an innovative milking machine.
The milking process is the collection of tasks specifically devoted to extracting milk from an animal (rather than the broader field of dairy animal husbandry).This process may be broken down into several sub-tasks: collecting animals before milking, routing animals into the parlour, inspection and cleaning of teats, attachment of milking equipment to teats, and often massaging the back of the ...