Agriculture
- Improved seed drill – Jethro Tull
- Steam-driven ploughing engine – John Fowler
- Pioneer of selective breeding and artificial selection – Robert Bakewell
- Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer – John Bennet Lawes
- Pioneer of the development in dairy farming systems – Rex Paterson
- The first commercially successful light farm tractor – Dan Albone
- Water desalination process – Sir Francis Bacon
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Famous quotes containing the word agriculture:
“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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