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In barns a draught created by the use of these opposed doorways was used in winnowing. [5] The technique developed by the Chinese was not adopted in Europe until the 18th century when winnowing machines used a 'sail fan'. [6] The rotary winnowing fan was exported to Europe, brought there by Dutch sailors between 1700 and 1720.
Fengshanche (Chinese: 風扇車 [1]; pinyin: fēngshànchē; lit. 'wind fan vehicle') was a winnowing machine that was used in ancient China to separate the grain from the chaff or seed casings after harvest. The winnowing machine also had a rotary fan which had a blower that had a crank handle to create air to blow away the lighter seed ...
The name of the machine is derived from the fact that the harvester combined multiple separate harvesting operations – reaping, threshing or winnowing and gathering – into a single process around the start of the 20th century. [2] A combine harvester still performs those operation principles.
A Japanese winnowing basket (2007) A winnowing basket or fan is a tool for winnowing grain from chaff while removing dirt and dust too. [1] They have been used traditionally in a number of civilizations for centuries, [2] and are still in use today in some countries.
Russian women using a hand powered winnowing machine in a barn. Painting by K.V. Lebedev, The Floor, 1894 Threshing and bagging grain in Germany in 1695 Threshing (thrashing) was originally "to tramp or stamp heavily with the feet" and was later applied to the act of separating out grain by the feet of people or oxen and still later with the ...
Witold Rybczynski has owned 15 cars in his life, and all of them make an appearance in "The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car"(Norton, $29.99). In fact, ...
At first, artesans from Cantalejo travelled with large carts loaded with selected threshing boards, winnowing bellows, grain measures (of different traditional dry units: celemín is a wooden case with 4,6 L, cuartilla has 14 L, and fanega equivalent to 55.5 L...) and other implements for threshing or winnowing, which they peddled from town to ...
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