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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… FLOWERs seems to have been the preserve of Italian makers, or else a style believed to be Italian became …
A History of the County of Oxford
… scythe is only used where it is impossible for a mowing machine to work. During late years many improvements and … The corn crop is almost entirely cut by the binder, a machine which has attained to a high state of efficiency. The … to be struck with the difference between the thrashing machine of then and now. It is recorded that about the year …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Wiltshire. At first the jenny was used as a domestic machine in the putting-out system and the spinners were now …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the most important among these men were the inventors and makers of agricultural machinery, and foremost among these … of the larger farmers preferred to hire. 281 The threshing machine attracted the attention of several improvers. J. … (d. 1823), invented the 'Amesbury Heaver', a winnowing machine, 282 which was still used when Little was writing. …
Survey of London
… Perkins and Bacon's 'steam guns,' prototypes of the modern machine gun. * Ultimately Nash let off the buildings in …