Agriscience

By bcaudle10

  • horse drawn seed driller

    jethro tull is credited with inventing the first horse drawn seed drill in england
  • Period: to

    Timeline

  • Cotton Gin

    eli whitney invented the cotton gin to transform cotton to a usable product by removing the cotton seed from the cotton fiber

  • iron plow

    created by thomas jefferson and his son in law thomas mann randolph

  • Grain reaper

    Cyrus mccormick invented the reaper to save labor in cutting wheat and oats

  • seed planter planter

    henry blair se ond black inventor to receive patent

  • cotton planter

    henry blair

  • steel moldboad plow

    john deere improved the iron plow

  • corn picker

    edmund quincy

  • barbed wire

    joseph glidden dramatically changed raising livestock

  • milking machine

    anna baldwin invented the milking machine to stopnhand milking

  • refrigerator

    thomas elkins preserving perishble foods

  • george washington carver

    soil improvement and crop rotation

  • tractor

    benjamin holt invented the track type tractor and commercializzed catterpillar

  • smith hughes act

    establishes vocational classes

  • virginia was the first

    to have ffa

  • ffa became national organization

  • nfa

    new farmers of america was formed for black students

  • national charter

    ffa got federal charter

  • merge

    nfa ffa merged

  • girls

    were allowed in ffa

  • name change

    ffa changed to national ffa organization

  • gene gun

    john sanford developed a device for injecting cells with genetic info

  • robotic milking machine

    first used in ontario canada

  • gps technology

    tractor based gps system

  • return to loiusville

    finished 7 year run in indiana