Agricultural Inventions by Joseph Brittain

Automatic Hay Baler

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 00:47:37 UTC

In 1936, Innes invents the Automatic Hay baler that ties bales with twine using the Appleby type knotter from a John Deere grain binder.

Invention of Hay Baler

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 00:51:54 UTC

1872 - a reaper that uses a knotter to bundle and bind hay is invented by Charles Withington.

Hay Baler Commercialized for commercial use.

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 00:54:07 UTC

1874 - Invention of Hay Baler is commercialized by Cyrus McCormick.

Automatic Hay Baler Patent

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:10:42 UTC

1938 - Edwin Nolt Files patent to improved and more reliable version of Automatic Hay Baler.

Seed Driller Invention

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:22:00 UTC

1701 - a mechanical seeder that sowed efficiently and at the correct depth and spacing then covering the seed to grow known as a seed driller is refined by Jethro Tull.

First Known European Seed Driller

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:27:24 UTC

1566 - The first known European seed driller was credited to Camillo Tello and patented by the Venetian Senate.

Production

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:32:12 UTC

Seed drills like this and successive types were both expensive and unreliable as well as fragile. Seed Drills would not come into Europe, widespread until the late 19th century.

Invention of Gasoline powered tractor

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:48:04 UTC

1892 - after failing to obtain coal for his steam powered engine, John Froelich and his blacksmith, Will Mann, invent the first gasoline powered tractor by mounting a one cylinder Van Duzen gasoline engine on a Robertson engine frame. This is the first mechanically successful gasoline powered engine that can go forward and afterwards.

Not so great...

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:54:27 UTC

1893 - Froelich and a group of investors founded Waterloo Gasoline Tractor Engine Company. The company only produces 4 tractors, 2 of which are returned as unsatisfactory.

Switch Gears

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 01:57:28 UTC

1895 - The company abandons its name and is renamed Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company, producing stationary engines.

Settling

jdmcbrittain — 2024-10-30 02:05:57 UTC

1895 - Froelich leaves the company that same year to relocate with his wife and four kids to Dubuque, Iowa where he worked for several engine manufacturing company until settling in St. Paul, Minnesota.