A short story set during the fight between the Mejere Pirates and the Reaping Machine in the Second Stage. It describes what happened after Gascogne had crashed her Delivery Ship into the Reaping Machine and after she went back to Nirvana following the last battle.
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The unveiling of their Damp Weather Threshing and Reaping Machine at the exhibit was met with especially good reviews.M.
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An 1851 illustration showing the reaping machine developed by Patrick Bell Improvement continued in the nineteenth century. Innovations included the first working reaping machine, developed by Patrick Bell in 1828. His rival James Smith turned to improving sub-soil drainage and developed a method of ploughing that could break up the subsoil barrier without disturbing the topsoil. Previously unworkable low- lying carselands could now be brought into arable production and the result was the even Lowland landscape that still predominates.
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An 1851 illustration showing the reaping machine developed by Patrick Bell Improvement continued in the nineteenth century. Innovations included the first working reaping machine, developed by Patrick Bell in 1828. His rival James Smith turned to improving sub-soil drainage and developed a method of ploughing that could break up the subsoil barrier without disturbing the topsoil. Previously unworkable low-lying carselands could now be brought into arable production and the result was the even Lowland landscape that still predominates.
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1851 illustration showing two horses pushing a Bell reaper Bell invented the reaping machine while working on his father's farm. His interest in mechanics led him to work on a horse powered mechanical reaper for speeding up the harvest. In 1828 his machine was used with success on his father's farm and others in the district. This reaping machine used a revolving 12 vane reel to pull the crop over the cutting knife, that was made from triangular reciprocating blades over fixed triangular blades.
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A mechanical reaper or reaping machine is a mechanical, semi-automated device that harvests crops. Mechanical reapers and their descendant machines have been an important part of mechanised agriculture and a main feature of agricultural productivity.
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Obed Hussey circa 1850 Poster for Hussey's Reaping Machine Obed Hussey (1792-1860) was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick. Hussey also invented a steam plow, a machine for grinding out hooks and eyes, a mill for grinding corn and cobs, a husking machine, a machine for crushing sugar cane, a machine for making artificial ice, a candle-making machine, and other devices.Greeno, p. 5.
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He invented a winnowing machine which met with some success. His first two sons, John Augustus and Thomas Henry joined the business. The business expanded into Crowther Street. In 1843 John Ridley commissioned him to build the prototype of his famous "stripper" reaping machine.
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A canvas conveyor moved the grain and stalks to the side in a windrow. This machine was pushed by livestock and ran on 2 wheels. Bell never sought a patent for his reaping machine. Being a man of God, he believed his invention should benefit all mankind.
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The area incorporating the current suburb of Ridleyton was originally granted to Osmond Gilles in March 1839. He later transferred it to John Ridley, inventor of the stripper or reaping machine, in June 1842 for £275. In 1873, Ridley lodged a plan to subdivide his land, naming one part Ridleyton.
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Greeno, pp. 9-10. Working in Cincinnati during the winter of 1832-1833, Hussey rebuilt his reaping machine there, completing it in time for the harvest of 1833.Greeno, p. 9. On July 2, 1833, Hussey exhibited his machine before the Hamilton County Agricultural Society near Carthage, Ohio,Greeno, pp.
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Copper was discovered near Kapunda in 1842. In 1845 even larger deposits of copper were discovered at Burra which brought wealth to the Adelaide shopkeepers who invested in the mine. John Ridley invented a reaping machine in 1843 which changed farming methods throughout South Australia and the nation at large.
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These included thirty-three English and twenty-two American inventions, as well as two French and one German.Miller, p. 17. In the United States, seventeen patents for harvesting machines had been granted before that of Hussey, the earliest in 1803; however, Hussey's was the first "really practical" reaping machine to be patented.
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Around 1840 Bagot selected a section of at Koonunga on the River Light, on which he ran sheep in partnership with Frederick Hansborough Dutton. The partnership was dissolved in 1843 and Dutton took the lease on another property near Kapunda, which he named Anlaby for a village in Yorkshire. Bagot was the first to use John Ridley's reaping machine.
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She followed him to the fields, she sat uon the reaping machine and drove the horses. She milked the cows, and raised vegetables; she reared chickens and calves. Once, she helped shingle a barn. She was educated in the high school of her birth, and took a finishing course at Woodside, a school for young women in Hartford, Connecticut.
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In the spring of 1834, Mechanics' Magazine gave coverage to Hussey's reaper.Hutchinson, v. 1, p. 91. That report was seen by Cyrus McCormick, who promptly wrote a letter to the editor claiming that he had invented and field- tested a reaping machine in 1831 and that use of the principles of the machine by others was an infringement of his rights.
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Henry F. Mann was an inventor and blacksmith. Mann is most famous for inventing a reaping machine in 1848 with his father Jacob J. Mann. Their first reaper patent was applied for on June 19, 1849. In 1861, Henry obtained a patent for improvement in breech loading cannons and subsequently test-fired many rounds for the chief ordnance constructor of the U.S. government.
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The most prominent manufacturer in the village, Walter A. Wood, came in 1836. He patented a mower 17 years later, in 1853, and began manufacturing both mowers and reapers. After the Civil War, his company, the Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Manufactory, moved into an old cotton factory on the north side of the Hoosick. Four years later a new facility had to be built.
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By 1831, Hussey was at work on his reaping machine, spending at least part-time at an agricultural implements factory in Baltimore.Greeno, p. 6. However, the hilly landscape of Maryland made it an unsuitable location for a field trial, so when the machine was ready, Hussey took it to Ohio,Greeno, p. 8. where he had a supporter in Cincinnati who provided both financing and manufacturing facilities.
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In 1845 even larger deposits of copper were discovered at Burra which brought wealth to the Adelaide shopkeepers who invested in the mine. With a series of good harvests and expanding agriculture, Adelaide exported meat, wool, wine, fruit and wheat. John Ridley invented a reaping machine in 1843 which changed farming methods throughout South Australia and the nation at large. By 1843, of land was growing wheat (contrasted with in 1838).
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In 1797 the Society of Arts awarded him thirty guineas for a chaff-cutting engine, which was the parent of later chaffcutters. In 1801 Salmon exhibited his "Bedfordshire Drill", which became the model for succeeding drills. In 1803 he showed a new design of plough. In 1804 he brought out a "scuffler", or cultivator, and two years later he exhibited a self-raking reaping machine, which was described in 1808 in Bell's Weekly Messenger.
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Amongst the preserved machinery is the reaping machine invented by Patrick Bell (1799–1869), the earliest surviving example of an iron plough invented by James Small (1730–1793) and the best collection of combine harvesters in Europe, mostly housed in an area which can be visited upon request. The High Breck of Rendall Mill is a permanent exhibit. It is the oldest known surviving threshing mill in the world. The museum has a large collection of scale and other models from the Highland Society and other sources relating to farm machinery, water wheels, etc.
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Dr White retired from his medical work in 1857, and invested his savings in setting up as a farmer on the Breede River nearby. His farm, which he named "The Retreat", comprised the modern Napkys Mond and Michielskraal properties, and he built a house which was later washed away by floods in 1902. He introduced the reaping machine to South Africa. He had earlier also introduced Angora goats to the Overberg and Karoo districts, but it was only in the Eastern Cape that they were a true success.
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James Smith (3 January 1789, Glasgow – 10 June 1850, Kingencleuch near Mauchline, age 61)Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine, 1850, pp. 333-35 was a Scottish inventor whose inventions include a reaping machine, a subsoil plough and the first endless chain of flats for carding. Smith's father, a self-made Glasgow businessman, died when he was two months old; his mother went to live with her brother, a friend and pupil of Richard Arkwright, and managing partner of cotton-works at Deanston. Smith attended Glasgow University before entering his uncle's factory and becoming manager aged 18.
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This becomes the basis for Birmingham's immense gas industry, which incorporates many products and trades that rely on gas to work. 1811: Henry James takes out a patent for propelling vessels by steam, via a paddle wheel fixed in the middle of the stern and steered by two fins to relieve leggers from the arduous duty of pushing boats through canal tunnels. 1814: Thomas Dobbs (actor) invents a reaping machine, which consists of a circular saw or sickle; the grain is drawn or fed up to the saw by means of a pair of rollers. This predates William Bell's straw cutting machine.
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After long inquiry he was given £250 in 1882 "for services in improving agricultural machinery". Bull claimed that he was the real inventor of Ridley's reaping machine, his claims are set out in his volume Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia. Bull sent in a model that was rejected by the committee, and his contention was that Ridley had seen his model and constructed his machine on its principles. Ridley, a man of the great probity, denied this, and his denial is borne out by the fact that his machine had had two successful trials within two months of the models being exhibited.
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It developed from the sickle in most parts of Britain during the mid to late 19th century, and was in turn replaced by the scythe, later by the reaping machine and subsequently the swather. It was still used when the corn was bent over or flattened and the mechanical reaper was unable to cut without causing the grain to fall from the ears and wasting the crop. It was also used in lieu of the bean hook or pea hook for cutting field beans and other leguminous crops that were used for fodder and bedding for livestock. Sometimes confused with the heavier and straighter billhook used for cutting wood or laying hedges.
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But Amos also added details in his book about the construction and use of a variety of farming implements. These included his own designs for a horse-drawn thistle cutter, sward-dresser and compound roller, and (less well-received because of doubts about its practicality) his own version of a tree transplanter. Moreover, he added his voice to those of fellow improvers by calling for the removal of 'obstacles that oppose the promoting, improving and extending' of agriculture, and he castigates 'gentlemen of landed property' for ignoring the proper management of their land.Minutes in Agriculture, pp. 51 & 66. Amos's other published writings span the years 1798–1816 and chiefly take the form of essays and letters in agricultural journals, covering a variety of topics from potato cultivation to his plans to design a workable reaping machine (in which endeavour, however, he later acknowledged he had been unsuccessful).
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Samuel Marshall (15 June 1803 – 28 March 1879) emigrated to South Australia on the Thomas Harrison, arriving in February 1839, one of the first ships after the First Fleet of South Australia. He was trained as an organ- builder, but realizing there would be little call for such skills in a pioneering colony (apart from assembly of a small pipe organ for a Mr. Richman), applied his ingenuity and dexterity to other mechanisms. He not only developed a reaping machine in competition with John Ridley's, but helped that gentleman in the production of his pioneering machine. In 1850 he set up a shop in Currie Street (the site of the later Adelaide Steamship Buildings) where he sold harmoniums and other musical instruments, later moving to 52 Rundle Street, at the corner of Gawler Place, extending to North Terrace. That building was demolished in 1879, and a new two-storey building erected in its place, with a lift operating between basement and top floor. In 1875 his sons Alfred Witter Marshall (31 October 1850 – 16 December 1915) and John Myles Marshall (14 May 1854 – 6 May 1877) became partners in the firm, and John travelled to England to learn techniques of piano-making at the factory of Pohlmann & Son, in Halifax, Yorkshire.
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