Scottish Inventions - Agricultural Innovations

Agricultural Innovations

  • Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811)
  • Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753)
  • The Scotch plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808)
  • Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789–1850)
  • The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869)
  • The Fresno scraper: James Porteous (1848–1922)
  • The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979

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