Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tion, it does not appear to have differedEarly Eng- substantially from that of the ancient Gallic husbandmen. Andlish reaping- yet, as in the development of a plant or of a fine art, we nowmachines. begin to see in rudimentary shape some new elements of theperfected machine. The power was applied as formerly, from behind, byeither horse or ox; and the big box or van was emptied into a storeroomwhen full. But mention is made of a heavy drive-wheel, toothed wheels, andpulleys; which indicates that a series of knives were made to beat against theteeth in a different manner from those of old. Another reaper is described in1799, which cut a swath two feet wide, and threw it to the ground on one side.This was another advance on the past; for the machine could now work withless frequent interruption. Agricultural writers always estimate the work of ahorse as equal to five men, and judge the value of a machine accordingly.As this reaper, with a horse and a boy, could do more than six men with
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40 IND US TRTA L HIS TOR Y sickles, it fulfilled the requirements of a labor-saving machine. Two moreBritish machines deserve to be noticed. Mr. Gladstone devised one in 1806,which delivered the grain in gavels to be bound ; and Mr. Plunckett constructedone the following year, which was drawn, instead of pushed, by the horse. In1822 Mr. Mann brought forward a reaper, under the auspices of the HighlandSociety of Scotland, which would cut ten acres in ten hours. In addition tobeing drawn, and having a side-projecting cutter-bar, this machine made useof a sliding or reciprocating knife, had a reel to beat the grain against theknives, and had a platform on which the grain fell. The first record of an American invention of this sort is of a mower,constructed by an ingenious mechanic of Genoa, Cayuga County, N.Y., inFirst Ameri- 1826 or 1828. The characteristic feature of it was a large wheel,can mower. which revolved horizontally near the ground, and which was pro-vided with scythe-like kn

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