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Iron Harvests of the Field - The Making of Farm Machinery in Britain Since 1800 (Hardcover)
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Iron Harvests of the Field - The Making of Farm Machinery in Britain Since 1800 (Hardcover)
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In many ways this book tells a familiar story in British industry:
of innovation and enterprise in the early decades ...of worldwide
dominance at a time when Britain was the workshop of the world
...of wars and economic downturns ...of foreign competition ...and
of relative and absolute decline on the path of -
de-industrialisation in the latter part of the twentieth century.
For most of this period the farm machine industry grew and matured.
It is an inspiring story of technological achievement and of
industrial success, as farmers and engineers brought iron and steel
to fields which had - previously been the domain of locally made
timber implements and power provided by horses.Agricultural
technology moved on, inexorably, from broad-cast seed and the sound
of the threshing flail, via the portable steam engine and the
threshing machine, right through to the modern world of giant
tractors - each with the power of 200 horses - combine harvesters
and - impressively efficient farming methods.This book traces the
broad sweep of the whole industry over 200 years, looking at many
individual companies and products to explain how and why the farm
machinery industry developed in the way it did. Important
individual machines are described and illustrated in detail. The
British farm machine industry is unlikely ever again to be large by
world standards, nor to dominate the world stage as once it did.
Yet the author traces a rich vein of innovation, enterprise and
technological inspiration, often taking place within the large
number of relatively small-scale, craft-based workshops which were
so prevalent in the early decades. Rather than mere manufacturing,
therefore, perhaps it is this tradition of technical innovation and
invention which marked out the British farm machinery industry for
historical greatness, and perhaps it is this tradition which will
continue to mark it out in the future.
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