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A Jordan Spreader adapted for snow-fighting. The Jordan spreader was the creation of Oswald F. Jordan, a Canadian road master who worked in the Niagara, Ontario area on the Canada Southern Railway, later a subsidiary of the New York Central Railroad. He supervised a crew at the St. Thomas Canada Southern shop in the early 1890s.
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Snow dozers are similar in operation and appearance to Jordan spreaders, but they use less complex chain-operated systems to raise and lower their blades. Early snow dozers were built of wood, but they were modernized with steel bodies and later constructed with steel bodies.
Spreader may refer to: Broadcast spreader, an agricultural machinery or lawn care tool designed to spread seed, fertilizer, lime, sand, ice melt, etc. Spreader (railroad), a kind of maintenance of way equipment designed to spread or shape ballast profiles; Hydraulic spreader, a tool used by emergency crews in vehicle extrication
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Jordan renounced its claim to the territory to the Palestinians in 1988 and signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Jordan is a semi-arid country, covering an area of 89,342 km 2 (34,495 sq mi) with a population of 11.5 million, making it the eleventh-most populous Arab country.
A manure spreader. Joseph Oppenheim (March 1, 1859 – November 24, 1901) was an educator who invented the modern widespread manure spreader that made farming less labor-intensive and far more efficient in the early 20th century, [1] and only he is honored for that invention in the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame in Columbus, Ohio.