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Author : Cyrus MACCORMICK
Publisher : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Harvesting machinery
ISBN : OCLC:250360280
Author : Cyrus McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Harvesting machinery
ISBN : UCAL:$B25175
Author : Cyrus MC Cormick
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : CORNELL:31924051785131
Cyrus McCormick's invention of the mechanical reaper revolutionized agriculture in the 19th century. In this book, McCormick recounts his experiences developing and promoting the reaper, as well as the challenges he faced from competitors and skeptics. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of farming and technology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Cyrus McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Harvesting machinery
ISBN : LCCN:07138863
Author : C. McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417483762
Author : Cyrus MC Cormick
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1022230735
Cyrus McCormick's invention of the mechanical reaper revolutionized agriculture in the 19th century. In this book, McCormick recounts his experiences developing and promoting the reaper, as well as the challenges he faced from competitors and skeptics. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of farming and technology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476636061
Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684831381
A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496235626
After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure--and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country's garden spot and the nation's heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region's past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers--and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.
Author : Gordon M. Winder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317045168
The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester. Much previous historical research into industrial networks focuses on industrial districts within metropolitan centres, but by focusing on harvesting - a typically rural technology - this book is able to analyse the spread of technological knowledge through a series of local networks and across national boundaries. In doing so it argues that the industry developed through a relatively stable stage from the 1850s into the 1890s, during which time many firms shared knowledge within and outside the US through patent licensing, to spread the diffusion of the American style of machines to establishments located around the industrial world. This positive cooperation was further enhanced through sales networks that appear to be early expressions of managerial firms. The book also reinterprets the rise of giant corporations, especially International Harvester Corporation (IHC), arguing that mass production was achieved in Chicago in the 1880s, where unprecedented urban growth made possible a break with the constraints felt elsewhere in the dispersed production system. It unleashed an unchecked competitive market economy with destructive tendencies throughout the transnational 'American reaper' networks; a previously stable and expanding production system. This is significant because the rise of corporate capital in this industry is usually explained as an outworking of national natural advantage, as an ingenious harnessing of science and technology to solve production problems, and as a rational solution to the problems associated with the worst forms of unregulated competition that emerged as independent firms developed from small-scale, artisanal production to large-scale manufacturers, on their own and within the separate and isolated US economy. The first study dedicated to the development and diffusion of American harvesting machine technology, this book will appeal to scholars from a diverse range of fields, including economic history, business history, the history of knowledge transfer, historical geography and economic geography.
Author : Charles J. McMillan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527586512
Around the world, the public faces a stark dilemma: food scarcity and food abundance, with food waste now reaching a trillion dollars a year. Rich countries have easy access to food products and can purchase a 300-gram chocolate bar for $4.00, yet a cocoa farmer in Africa earns less than $1 a day. This book provides a comprehensive study of the food production system, from farms and farming to the ultimate haute cuisine of the finest restaurants, and corporate business models, from commodity traders, food producers, and food retailers. Problems arise with the rising value of land and corporate strategies to minimize risk and seeking low-cost inputs, including the prices paid to farmers. For centuries, science and technology have played a role in all aspects of the ‘total system’. Together, they have improved plant yields, soil condition, animal health, and machine mechanization, including plant-based meat and dairy products. A new paradigm, precision agriculture, now beckons.
Author : Peter J. Parish
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : America in literature
ISBN : 1884964222
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456149
Author : John W. Klooster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313347443
These two volumes provide in-depth coverage of 24 of history's most important inventors and their inventions. Who invented the sewing machine, the telephone, the internal combustion engine? Who pioneered vaccination? Who gave the world television, nylon, the nuclear reactor? The answers to some of these questions are straightforward, the answers to others much less so. All of them are explored in the fascinating Icons of Invention: The Makers of the Modern World from Gutenberg to Gates. This in-depth resource tells the stories of 24 of the most influential and well-known inventions of the modern age—and of the individuals most responsible for their development. Presented in chronological order, the entries provide background on the lives and work of inventors such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, and Tim Berners-Lee. At the same time, the set profiles their competitors and details the sometimes-controversial, often-mistake-plagued routes almost all of them took to their most famous creations.
Author : Walter Ebeling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520310834
Some consider American agriculture as one of the wonders of the modern world. In this book Walter Ebeling tells its story. Professor Ebeling grew up on a farm, loves the soil, and had the good fortune to have been closely associated with the land in all its aspects. Beginning with a brief history of why and how preagricultural peoples changed from hunters and gatherers and eventually became tillers of the soil, Professor Ebeling then deals with the seven geographic regions of the United States--from the East to California--giving the history and present status of agriculture for each reason. Although the main thrust of The Fruited Plain is the drama, romance, and excitement of the American agricultural experience, Professor Ebeling is concerned with the environmental, ecological, and sociological aspects of agriculture and its supporting industries. He discusses environmental problems in America that began when the Indians' "shifting" agriculture (allowing for long periods of soil restoration) was replaced by the white man's permanent agriculture. He examines the modern technology for a successful and environmentally viable permanent agriculture and how it can be implemente on a much larger scale. The questions asked--and answered--are what are the principal environmental problems? What is being, and/or can be done about soil erosion? Scarcity of water? Urban encroachment on agricultural lands? What directions can be taken by benevolent technology? Does technology have remedies for land that is susceptible to water erosion and loss of topsoil? Likewise, pollution and environmental degradation resulting from excessive use of pesticides? Our society much recognize the importance of protecting our agricultural resources, and Professor Ebeling, in this monumental book, gives many suggestions on how to accomplish the sustained utilization of America's great resource--the farmlands. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.