AG History Timeline

  • Eli whitney

    Eli whitney
    inventor if the cotton gin very influential in industrial revolution
  • Thresher

    Thresher
    Invented by Andrew Meikle seperated grain from plants
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Invented by Eli Whitney that seperates cotton from its seeds for easier harvesting
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Invented iron plow and focused on crop rotating
  • Cyrus McCormick

    Cyrus McCormick
    Inventor of the reaper
  • The Reaper

    The Reaper
    invented by Cyrus McCormick was the first machine that you could harvest crops with instead of having to do everything by hand
  • Iron Plow

    Iron Plow
    Invened by Thomas Jefferson
  • Steel Plow

    Steel Plow
    Invented by John Deere
  • Combine

    Combine
    Invented by Hiron Moore, first driven by horses for mass harvesting of crops.
  • korn picker

    korn picker
    The inventor of the first corn harvester is Edmund Quincy, the corn picker would pick the corn a foot from the ground for easier harvesting.
  • Milking machine

    Milking machine
    Patented by L.O. Colvin changed agriculture for forever so u dont have to handjmilk cows
  • Barbed Wire

    Barbed Wire
    First patented by Lucien Smith it was the first technology to restrain and keep cattle in a specific area
  • Anna Baldwin

    Anna Baldwin
    What the first to patent better ways of treating milk and to make pomade, butter. She also patented the vacuum milker
  • Tractor

    Tractor
    First sucssesful gasoline powered tractor was invented by John Froelich that could be driven backwards and forwards
  • George Washington Carver

    George Washington Carver
    He was an african american inventor who really changed the way farmers grew crops. He promoted alternative crops not just cotton and the usual. He also invented peanut butter which is a big deal because who doesn't love peanut butter
  • Benjamin Holt

    Benjamin Holt
    inventor of the first crawler type tread tractor