Steam-engines and Thrashing-machines, at the Smithfield Club Show, 1854. 'This new display [in the Exhibition of Agricultural Implements and Machinery at King-street Bazaar] proved more great progress that is making in the application of steam to agricultural purposes, and also the improved class of machinery that is being brought into are being made larger, more elaborate in their details, and necessarily more are no longer the noisy, rudely-constructed contrivances of times past, but are now truly fine machines, capable of executing an
Steam-engines and Thrashing-machines, at the Smithfield Club Show, 1854. 'This new display [in the Exhibition of Agricultural Implements and Machinery at King-street Bazaar] proved more great progress that is making in the application of steam to agricultural purposes, and also the improved class of machinery that is being brought into are being made larger, more elaborate in their details, and necessarily more are no longer the noisy, rudely-constructed contrivances of times past, but are now truly fine machines, capable of executing an immense amount of work in a short time. They are mostly capable of thrashing a bushel of wheat per minute - shaking the straw, separating the chaff, and so effectually cleaning the wheat, that, after being afterwards once run through a dressing-machine, it is ready for '. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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