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Here's something you may not have known about early agricultural pioneer, Jethro Tull.Visit http://tinyurl.com/ybqexww to see the rest of episode 506.
First ever agricultural machine at the start of the English Industrial Revolution (the world's first.)
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Drill husbandry. Tull's Seed drill (Horse-hoeing husbandry, 4th edition, 1762 [7]) Tull invented some machinery for the purpose of carrying out his system of drill husbandry, about 1733. His first invention was a drill-plough to sow wheat and turnip seed in drills, three rows at a time.
Jethro Tull (born 1674, Basildon, Berkshire, Eng.—died Feb. 21, 1741, Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford, Berkshire) was an English agronomist, agriculturist, writer, and inventor whose ideas helped form the basis of modern British agriculture. Tull trained for the bar, to which he was called in 1699.
Jethro Tull © Tull was an agricultural pioneer and the inventor of the seed drill, a major development in the agricultural revolution. Jethro Tull was born in 1674 into a family of...
2 wrz 2024 · Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 1701 as a way to plant more efficiently. Prior to his invention, sowing seeds was done by hand, by scattering them on the ground or placing them in the ground individually, such as with bean and pea seeds.
