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Tull’s drill was constructed with three seed hoppers giving on to cylinders with recessed holes cut at intervals around the cylinder; the cylinders could be removed and exchanged to accommodate different sized seeds.
1 sty 2010 · Abstract. Eighteenth-century British gentleman farmer Jethro Tull (1674–1741) is popularly regarded as the inventor of the seed drill, widely cited by agricultural historians, soil scientists and school history textbooks alike. Whether Tull was in fact the first to experiment with a mechanical seed drill and the horse-drawn cultivators ...
31 gru 2010 · One of the earliest examples of new agricultural technology was the development of the horse drawn seed drill, which is usually attributed to Jethro Tull (1733).
A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. The seed drill sows the seeds at the proper seeding rate and depth, ensuring that the seeds are covered by soil.
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.
Jethro Tull 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. But for the next 10 years he chose to operate his father’s farm in Oxfordshire, on which about 1701.
A seed drill is a sowing device that precisely positions seeds in the soil and then covers them. Before the introduction of the seed drill, the common practice was to plant seeds by hand.
