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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 ...
Gaar, Scott & Co., was an American threshing machine and steam traction engine builder founded in 1849 [1] and based in Richmond, Indiana. The company built simple and compound engines in sizes from 10 to 50 horsepower. Farm machinery produced by the firm were advertised as part of "the Tiger Line" and used a tiger upon two globes as the ...
The McCormick company introduced the first of many twine binder machines in 1881, leading to the so-called "Harvester Wars" that gained the attention of the farm industry during the 1880s. Case tractor. In 1884, Case made a visit to a farm named after him in Minnesota upon receiving news that one of his thresher machines was not working ...
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 ...
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Advance Thresher Co. – later merged with the M. Rumely Co. to create Advance-Rumely Thresher Co. Advance-Rumely Thresher Co., La Porte, Indiana ~Althaus Ewing & Co. ~American Engine Co. American-Abell Engine and Thresher Company, Toronto, Ontario [8]
Banner states - Engines, Saw Mills and Threshing Machines. In 1838 Nahum and Clement Russell started a general carpentry business in Massillon, Ohio. They used a two-story frame building, and drove the machinery by horse-power. They made ploughs and agricultural implements, plus building houses, furniture, coffins, and more. The carpentry shop ...
A Birdsell Clover Huller exhibited at the Indiana State Museum. The Birdsell Clover Huller was invented by John Comly Birdsell in 1855 in West Henrietta, New York (near Rochester ). His machine both removed the hulls from the clover ( threshing ), removed the seeds from the hulls ( hulling ), and cleaned the seeds so they can be used or sold ...