agricultural developent timeline

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Significant Development

Deere&Co. Which we presently know as John Deere begin their tractor production

The very first self propelled vehicle was a military tractor invented by a Frenchmechanic named Nicholas Cugnot. It was made for the Paris arsenal to movemilitary equipment

The very first successful gas tractor was built by John Froelich. It was assembledfrom parts and pieces of other machines. He used a Van Duzen vertical strokeengine. It was employed for threshing.

First U.S. factory for tractors driven by an internal combustion engine.Charles Hart and Charles Parr establish the first U.S. factory devoted tomanufacturing a traction engine powered by an internal combustion engine. Smallerand lighter than its steam-driven predecessors, it runs all day on one tank of fuel.Hart and Parr are credited with coining the term "tractor" for the traction engine

First crawler tractor with tracks rather than wheels by Benjamin Holt,

First agricultural engineering curriculum at Iowa State College. Jay BrownleeDavidson designs the first professional agricultural engineering curriculum at then-Iowa State College. Davidson also becomes the first president of the AmericanSociety of Agricultural Engineers in 1907, leading agricultural mechanizationmissions to the Soviet Union and China.

The British war office order a Holt tractor and chose it as a gun tractor. The holt75HP model gasoline powered tractor was the first "standard" tractor adopted inquantity. It was a major artillery tractor used in WW1

Henry Ford & Son Corporation—a spinoff of the Ford Motor Company— beginsproduction of the Fordson tractor. Originally called the "automobile plow" anddesigned to work 10- to 12-acre fields, it costs as little as $395 and soonaccounts for 50 percent of the worldwide market for tractors.

American Harvestor manufactures the Ronning Harvestor American Harvester Company of Minneapolis begins manufacturing the horse-drawn

Ronning Harvester, a corn silage harvester patented in 1915 by Minnesota farmersAndrean and Adolph Ronning.

The first Nebraska Tractor Test begins on the Waterloo Boy model N tractor. Soonafter the Nebraska tests became worldwide standards

rs ma or aer a us ng o crops U.S. Army pilots and Ohio entomologists conduct the first major aerial dusting of crops, spraying arsenate of lead over 6 acres of catalpa trees in Troy to control thesphinx caterpillar.

International Harvester introduces a power takeoff , a device that allowspower from a tractor engine to be transmitted to attached harvesting equipment.

This innovation is part of the company’s signature Farmall tractor in 1924.

Caterpillar is established, making Bart&Holt pioneered track type tractors and petrolpowered tractor engines

Caterpillar manufactures a crawler tractor with a diesel engine, which offersmore power, reliability, and fuel efficiency than those using low-octane gasoline.

Rubber wheels improve the tractor. An Allis-Chalmers Model U tractorbelonging to Albert Schroeder of Waukesha, Wisconsin, is outfitted with a pair of Firestone 48X12 airplane tires in place of lugged steel wheels. Tests by theUniversity of Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory find that rubber wheels result in a 25percent improvement in fuel economy.



First pickup baler manufactured. The Ann Arbor Machine Company of Shelbyville, IIlinois, manufactures the first pickup baler. The baler, attached to atractor, picks up cut hay in the field, shapes it into a 16-18-inch bale, and knots thetwine that hold the bale secure. Self-propelled hay balers soon follow.

Hydraulic draft control system developed. Irish mechanic Harry Ferguson

develops a tractor that incorporates his innovative hydraulic draft control system,which raises and lowers attached implements—such as tillers, mowers, post-holediggers, and plows—and automatically sets their needed depth.

First research on conservation tillage. Agronomists Frank Duley and JouetteRussell at the University of Nebraska, along with other scientists with the U.S. SoilConservation Service, being the first research on conservation tillage.

First self-propelled combine. In Australia, Massey-Harris introduces the first self-propelled combine—a thresher and reaper in a single machine—not drawn by atractor or horse.

First commercially viable mechanical spindle cotton picker.

Center pivot irrigation machine invented. Colorado farmer Frank Zybach inventsthe center pivot irrigation machine, which revolutionizes irrigation technology. Thesystem consists of sprinklers attached to arms that radiate from a water-filled hubout to motorized wheeled towers in the field. Zybach is awarded a patent in 1952for the "Self- Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Apparatus."

Corn head attachments for combines are introduced. The John Deere andInternational Harvester companies introduce corn head attachments for theircombines.

For the first time in American History Tractors outnumbered the Horses on a farm. The agricultural equipment industry's dream to replace animal power is realized astractor becomes an efficient and viable machine

The Gyral air seeder is patented. The Gyral air seeder, which plants seedsthrough a pneumatic delivery system, is patented in Australia.

Eicher rolls out India's first indigenously built tractor from its Faridabad factory

The DICKEY-john Manufacturing Company introduces electronic monitoringdevices for farmers that allow them to plant crops more efficiently.

Farmers begin using Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Ushering inthe new "precision agriculture," farmers begin using Global Positioning System(GPS) receivers to record precise locations on their farms to determine which areasneed particular quantities of water, fertilizer, and pesticides.



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Year Major World Events

1903 Wright Bros. first flight Picture

1905 Einstein's Theory of Relativity Picture

1914-191 World War 1 Picture

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1981world’s first personal computer IBM-PC is launched

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1983 India win the Cricket World Cup Picture

1998 France win the Football Worldcup Picture

First talking motion picture, The jazz singer, releasedby Warner Brothers.

Crash on New York Stock Exchange marks thebeginning of the Great Depression.

Mahatma Gandhi leads ‘Salt march’ in India toprotest against British tax on salt production.

Germany invades Poland.Britain and France declarewar on Germany—beginning of World War II.

Britain partitions India into two independentdominions: India and Pakistan

Popularity of rock’n’roll; Elvis Presley dominates USTop Ten record charts.

Mother India becomes the first movie to nominatedfor an Oscar.

US astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man

to walk on the moon.



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