Agricultural Mechanization Timeline
{"Image DocumentName": "Agricultural Mechanization Timeline", "Image ImageDescription": "1932 Rubber wheels improve the tractor An Allis-Chalmers Model U tractor belonging to Albert Schroeder of Waukesha, Wisconsin, is outfitted with a pair of Firestone 48X12 airplane tires in place of lugged steel wheels. Tests by the University of Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory find that rubber wheels result in a 25 percent improvement in fuel economy. Rubber wheels also mean smoother, faster driving with less wear and tear on tractor parts and the driver. Minneapolis Marine Power Implement Company even markets a Comfort Tractor with road speeds up to 40 mph, making it usable on public roads or hauling grain or transporting equipment First pickup baler manufactured The Ann Arbor Machine Company of Shelbyville, IIlinois, manufactures the first pickup baler, based on a 1929 design by Raymond McDonald. Six years later Edwin Nolt develops and markets a self-tying pickup baler. The baler, attached to a tractor, picks up cut hay in the field, shapes it into a inch bale, and knots the twine 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\u2014such as tillers, mowers, post-hole diggers, and plows\u2014and automatically sets their needed depth. The David Brown Company in England is the first to build the tractor, but Ferguson also demonstrates it to Henry Ford in the United States. With a handshake agreement, Ford manufactures Ferguson\u2019s tractor and implements from 1939 to A few years later Ferguson\u2019s company merges with Canadian company Massey-Harris to form Massey-Ferguson First research on conservation tillage Agronomists Frank Duley and Jouette Russell at the University of Nebraska, along with other scientists with the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, being the first research on conservation tillage. The practice involves various methods of tilling the soil, with stubble mulch and different types of plows and discs, to control wind erosion and manage crop residue. This technology is common on farms by the early 1960s Rural Electrification Administration bring electricity to many farmers President Roosevelt issues an executive order to create the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which forms cooperatives that bring electricity to millions of rural Americans. Within 6 years the REA has aided the formation of 800 rural electric cooperatives with 350,000 miles of power lines. Witold Kwa\u015bnicki (INE, UWr), Notatki do wyk\u0142ad\u00f3w.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}