Australian Inventions in
Agriculture
Australia, being an agricultural country, soon found a greater need
to work faster and more efficiently in their fields to provide the
demand of the growing population and make farming easier. Such economic
and social needs gave rise to the inventions that dominate farms
today.
Inventions such as the stump-jump plough was invented and developed by
Richard and Clarence Smith in 1876. It jumps over stumps and other
obstacles when farming so that the ploughshare is not damaged.
Australians also invented the Combine Harvester also called “The
Sunshine Harvester”. Invented by Hugh Victor McKay of Drummartin,
Victoria in 1882, it was an improved version of the earlier stripper
which had been made by John Ridley and John Bull of South Australia. It
was in 1916, though, when a man named Headlie Taylor of Henty built a
harvester that removed the heads from grain which had been flattened.
H.V.McKay, by then a successful industrialist,
manufactured Taylor's design in his factories.
The Self-Propelled Rotary Hoe was invented in 1912 by Cliff Howard of
Gilgandra when he was only 16 years old. It had rotating hoe blades on
an axle that simultaneously hoed the ground and pulled the machine
forward, hastening pre-planting preparations.
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