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The British Agricultural Revolution was the result of the complex interaction of social, economic and farming technological changes. Major developments and innovations include: [ 28 ] Norfolk four-course crop rotation : fodder crops, particularly turnips and clover, replaced leaving the land fallow.
First Agricultural Revolution (circa 10,000 BC), the prehistoric transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture (also known as the Neolithic Revolution) Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th century), The spread of new crops and advanced techniques in the Muslim world; British Agricultural Revolution (17th–19th century), an ...
Andrew Meikle, A. Reddock, c.1790-1800. 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.
Arab Agricultural Revolution; B. British Agricultural Revolution; ... Timeline of cultivation and domestication in South and West Asia
Gregg, Pauline (1950) A Social and Economic History of Britain: 1760–1950 online; Kerridge, Eric (1967) The Agricultural Revolution. Taylor and Francis; Langdon, John (1986). Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26772-2.
These advancements aside, it was the 17th century before England saw widespread increases in agricultural productivity in what was called the British Agricultural Revolution. [61] The low level of medieval yields persisted in Russia and some other areas until the 19th century. In 1850, the average yield for grain in Russia was 600 kilograms per ...
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1700 – British Agricultural Revolution ends; 1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states; 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture. 1809 – French confectioner Nicolas Appert invents canning; 1837 – John Deere invents steel plough