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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) 22 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
y.) A machine for cutting grain or clover. A great many devices were used before a satisfactory conclusion was reached. Plate XXX. shows a large number of distinct inventions, involving reciprocating and circular movements of single knives and knives working in apposition. The illustrations and group headings will be readily understood, and the dates will add interest to the list, showing the length of time that man has been hammering at the problem. The harvester used in the plains of Rhaetia, in the time of Pliny, had no proper motion, but was simply a comb whose teeth had sharp edges which cut and tore the head of the grain from the stalk and allowed it to be brushed into the box of the machine. See reaper ; Cloverharvester. Mowing was a familiar duty in Palestine, and the Scripture references to it show that the ardent sun cured the grass in a short time, as with us. The sudden wilting and quick drying which form the basis of so many beautiful comparisons in the Bible ar
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
-five years purchase, or twenty-five times its rental. Agriculture declined from the time of Cato to that of Pliny. The best of the memoranda on husbandry compiled by the latter are from Cato and Varro. It revived in the part of Gaul called Rhaetia, where reaping-machines were running in the first century A. D., as recorded by Pliny, and subsequently referred to by Palladius. The latter describes them in his De re rustica, about A. D. 350, as driven by oxen and harvesting fields in one daformed with a cutting edge, by the agency of which implement it both cleaves the ground and, with sharp edges at the sides, cuts up the weeds by the roots. There has been invented at a comparatively recent period. in that part of Gaul known as Rhaetia a plow with the addition of two small wheels, and known by the name of plaumorati. The extremity of the share in this has the form of a spade: it is only used, however, for sowing in cultivated lands and upon soils which are nearly fallow. The