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The Tresher
Andrew Meikle (5 May 1719 – 27 November 1811) was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat. (1786) -
Cotton Gin
Cotton gin, machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. -
Iron Plow
Thomas Jefferson- he created an iron and mould board plow that could create furrows to the downhill side of a field. -
Benjamin Holt
The “Caterpillar” Tractor. (1804) -
Thomas Jefferson
Fields were prone to erosion because of the hills and weather, so Jefferson needed a plow that could dig up to three inches deeper to facilitate hillside planting -
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver, was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. -
Cyrus McCormick
American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper -
Reaper
Cyrus McCormick claimed that his reaper was actually invented in 1834, giving him the true claim to the general design of the machine. Reapers were machines developed in the early 1800s to help farmers harvest grain -
Steel Plow
John Deere invented the steel plow in 1837 when the Middle-West was being settled. The soil was different than that of the East and wood plows kept breaking. -
John Deere
As Earth's population increased, technology was required to increase food production. Having observed that crops were more productive where the soil was loosened, people reasoned that the soil needed to be tilled before seeding, therefor he invented the steel moldboard plow. -
The Combine
The combine was invented in the United States by Hiram Moore in 1834, and early versions were pulled by horse or mule teams, ox. In 1835, Moore built a full-scale version and by 1839, over 50 acres of crops were harvested. -
Corn Picker
Edmund Quincy invented the corn picker. He invented it for speeding up the process of harvesting foods like corn and other vegetables. (1850) -
Barbed Wire
a De Kalb, Illinois, farmer named Joseph Glidden submits an application to the U.S. Patent Office for his clever new design for a fencing wire with sharp barbs, an invention that will forever change the face of the American West. -
Anna Baldwin
operated a dairy farm in Newark, New Jersey. Her first U.S. patent was filed in 1868 for a device that offered a better method of treating milk to make pomade and butter. -
The Milking Machine
In 1878, 267 years after the first cow came to America, a New Jersey woman came up with a great invention. Her name was Anna Baldwin, and she created the first suction milking machine which revolutionized the industry. -
The First Tractor
Benjamin Holt invented the first Tractor.
