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cotton gin
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. -
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agricultural inventions
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Iron plow
Thomas Jefferson invents the iron plow. -
grain reaper
Cyrus McCormick invents the grain reaper to save labor in cutting wheat, oats, and similar crops. -
seed and cotton planter
Henery Blair. -
steel moldboard plow
John Deere improved the iron plow by inventing the steel moldboard plow. -
corn picker
Edmund Quincy. -
barbed wire
Joseph Glidden dramatically changed raising livestock, barbed wire tatoos came much later. -
milking machine
Anna Bladwin changed the dairy industry by inventing a machine to replace hand milking. -
perishable food preservation
Thomas Elkins designed a device thst helped with the task of preserving perishable foods by way of refridgeration. -
soil improvement and crop rotation.
George Washington Carver developed crop rotation and the use of legumes to improve soil fertitlity in the U.S. south. -
tractor
Ben Holt invented the tractor to replace the mule as a sorce of power. -
gene gun
John Stanford developed a device for injecting cells with genetic information -
GPS
tractor based GPS systems together with sophisicated GIS uses a wide variety of techniques to gather data such a soil condition, humidity, temperature, and other variables, which the system then uses to control such things as intensity of planting, application of fertelizer and pesticides, watering scheduals, ect. -
robotic milking machine
first used in Onterio, Canada, many benefits one of which is reduction of labor. initial cost is primary disadvntage, especially to small producers.