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William H. Fruen of Minneapolis, Minnesota was granted U.S patents for first coin-operated, automatic, vending machine to dispense liquids. (1884)
William James Farrer born. Australian agriculturist who developed several new cultivars of wheat.
Hatch's sowing machine for wheat, oats & other grasses first demonstarted.
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Beer first sold in bottles by Francis Manning-Needham
David Grandison Fairchild was a botanist & agriculturalist. He was responsible for introducing many useful plants to U.S. author of "The World Was My Garden" & "Exploring for Plats"
Henry Tibbe invented corncob pipe. Pipe made from white kernel corn used to make taco & tortilla flour.
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Refrigerators and pre-packages made transportation easier. Arrival of canned foods in Canadian Kitchen made another way to preserve foods in metal cans instead of glass.
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Usefulness of crossbreeding to improve efficiency of beef production demonstrated. (1939)
Paul Sabatier died. He was an organic chemist who researched catalytic organic synthesis. (1941)
Japan organized school children to gather more than 1 million tons to acorns to make flour due to dwindling stocks of rice & wheat. (1945)
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1st U.S. patent on animal life form was issued to Harvard scientists for genetically engineered mouse (1988)
Poisoned olive oil trial. 1,500 witnesses were questioned who poisoned 25.000 Spaniards. Some died, others partially paralyzed or suffering from other ailments. (1988)
Average commercial fertilizer use on U.S. farms during 1980s was 47.4 million tons per year. (1989)
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