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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Science & technology
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
Book
- Title:
- Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré
- Author(s):
- Trousset, Jules (under the direction of)
- Publisher:
- Paris: La Librairie Illustrée, 1885-1891
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Harvesting machines began to spread around 1830. Cyrus Hall McCormick patented his first horse-drawn harvester in 1834, and Boyce in England, Bayley in the US, designed their own machines a few years before him.
The one shown in this picture is based on same principle as the Allen harvester, which was the first one to be popular in France: a frame supports the driver’s seat, while the saw, or sythe, is set in motion by a very simple mechanism, engaged when the horse gets the wheels going.
The caption reads in the original French: Moissoneuse.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, agriculture, black & white, machine, reference book, rural
