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The first iron plow was invented
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Count Alessandro Volta invented the battery, and his name is partly why we now measure power in "volts."
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Thomas Jefferson invented the "Jefferson Disk" a side hill plow
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Humphry Davy invents eh first electric light.
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invented by Oliver Evans
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German, Fredrick Koenig invents an imporved printing press
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Peter Durand invents the tin cans
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The first plow with three replaceable parts
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While an earlier model invented by Richard Trevithick had failed, George Stephenson didn't give up on the idea of a steam powered train. He designed the first successful steam engine
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German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects
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Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp
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Jeremiah Bailey invented the first six knife cutter for hay.
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The idea of pouring liquid rock that would harden into stone was a dream that had been played with by inventors for years. Joseph Aspdin was successful in creating a formula for cement that would change the way builders built.
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Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
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William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
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A rake that the operator had to stop the rake and back up the horse in order to dump hay to form a windrow
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John Walker invents the modern matches
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Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
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Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
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William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
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One of the first Threshers made by Hiram and John Pitts
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Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
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Cyrus McCormick made the first reaper
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Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo.
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Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
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Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
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Solymon Merrick patents the wrench
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
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English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
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Samual Morse invents Morse Code
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invented by Cyrus H McCormick and his brother Leander J. McCormick
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American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle
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Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint
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The first grain drill was rolled of the production line
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Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
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The first grain elevator in Buffalo NY
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Case Corporation founded by Jerome I. Case.
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The first mowing machine was patented
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Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton
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Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire
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Irrigation started and soon became popular
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Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
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Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.
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mixed chemical fertilizers sold commerically
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corn picker was invented by Edmund Quincy
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the first perfected self-governing windmill was established
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the first 2 horse straddle row cultivator was introduced
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The Mash Brothers invented one of the first Reapers and Binders in one
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James Oliver made Oliver's first chilled cast iron plow
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Lewis Miller improves his hay mower
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Anna Baldwin made the first producing milking machine
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The first self moving steam engine invented by Thomas Aveling
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John Deere develops the Hawkeye Riding Cultivator
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The first Steam Plow rolls of the line
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Gang Plows is now in production
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Steam tractors were now tried out.
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Spring tooth harrows were out
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Spring toothed seedbed was tried out
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Silos became in use
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the first used knotter on early grain reapers, invented by Charles Withington
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barbed wire is now used for fenecing
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The first mechanical corn planter, George Lambart
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Perishable food preservation is now a big hit
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Thomas Elkins improved the refrigerator
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Crusher and roller was invented and used
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William Deering out 3,000 twine binders on the market
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The first McCormick Daisy Reaper by Cyrus McCormick
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Holt Manufacturing Company, was made from Benjamin Holt
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Horse drawn combines used in pacific coast
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the first successful horse drawn corn picker was demonstrated by Patrick J. Lawler
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Soil pulverizer is now used
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Holt sold there first combine
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The first manufacturer to build a factory to produce binder twine used on their harvesters, William Deering & CO
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Rubber tires are now on the market, John Boyd Dunlop
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The first combined clod crusher and roller was used
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cream separators came into wide use
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Soil improvement was descovered
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Crop Rotation was now popular
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Rudolph made the first diesel engine, but ever produced any
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the annual consumption of commercial fertilizer is 1,845,900 tons
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the most dependable and basic machinery was horse drawn
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the first successful mechanical manure spreader, Joseph Oppenheim and Henery synck
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The First gasoline tractor, John Froehlich
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the first corn silage harvester, Iowan Charles C
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Rudolph Diesel patents the compression ignition engine that became known as the diesel engine and made it official.
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Charles and Elwood Williamson of Union City, Ind, Invented " new and useful" improvements to land rollers for farming, roads and other purposes.
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James B. Hill, Bowling Green Ohio, patents the first steam traction ditching machine. it produced accurately sloped ditches for agricultural drain tiles
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J.I. Case begins engineering as gas traction engine when William Paterson of Stockton, Calif came to Racine Wis, to begin work on the experimental engine.
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The side delivery rake is developed to produce more appropriately sized windrows for hay loaders
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the auto truck came in to production by Gottlieb Daimler
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the average annual consumption of commercial fertilizer 3,738,300 tons
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Brillion Iron works, Brillion, Wis. Produce the first soild pulverizer to produce smoother seedbeds for planting
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Benjamin Holt, develops the first successful crawler tractor, its equipped with tracks rather than wheels to keep heavy tractors from sinking into soft soils
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International Harvester develops the first friction drive tractor by utilizing the IH stationary gas engine with a Mortion chassis
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The first business devoted exclusively to making tractors is established,
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Joseph Galamb, Henry Ford begins working on an experimental gasoline-powered tractor
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Commercial Fertilizer uses 6,116,700 tons/year
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Ummo Lebens develops the first round hay baler
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the C.L. Best Tractor Company invented by Clarence Leo Best
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Big opened geared gas tractors introduced in areas of extensive farming
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Australian farmer and inventor Arther Clifford Howard develops the first powered rotary tiller.
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Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co. produces its first Waterloo Boy traction engine.
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Enclosed gears developed for tractors
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Andrean and Adolph Ronning patent the horse drawn Ronning Harvester, a corn silage harvester that improved the earlier ones
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Harry Krause designs and builds the first one-way disk plow
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the United States Congress that promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose.
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the discovery of Nitrogen Fixation which is in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia
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small prairie-type combine with auxiliary engine was introduced
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American Harvester Co. of Minneapolis begins manufacturing the horse drawn Ronning Harvester
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The Gilson Manufacturing Co. became the first to attach a gasoline engine to a multi-purpose gardening implement, ultimately manufacturing about 7,000 of these tractors for the Beeman Tractor Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gilson began making garden tractors under its own name by the early 1920s. The company was renamed Gilson Bolens Co. in 1928 and Bolens Manufacturing Co. in 1939
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International Harvester develops the first commercially available power-take-off (PTO) system, to allow power from a tractor engine to be transmitted to attached harvesting equipment
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The Baldwin Brothers of Nickerson, Kan., develop the first self-propelled “Gleaner” combine, mounted on a Fordson tractor
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Deere & Co. launches the Model “D” tractor. It will remain in the line for nearly 30 years
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International Harvester introduces its Farmall tractor. With the rear wheels set wide apart and narrow front wheels, the tractor was ideally suited for cultivating row crops.
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Commercial Fertilizer uses 6,845,800 tons/year
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Farm production gradually grows from expanded use of mechanize power
