Invention Timeline - Walter Abbott Wood, American Inventor of Farming Implements
b. October 23, 1815 and d. ?
American inventor of farming implements. Introduced the Manny harvesting machine with Wood’s improvements. He improved and invented forms of mowers and reapers. His works are probably the most extensive of their kind in the world. He conducted his business alone until 1866, when it was organized into a stock company.
By thee the plowshare rents the matted plain,
Inhumes in level rows the living grain;
Intrusive forests quit the cultured ground,
And Ceres laughs with golden fillets crown’d
—Botanic Garden: Dr. Darwin
What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and
the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects,
sun-it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of
spring to the last stack which the snow of winter
overtakes in the field.
—Nature: Emerson
1799, April-1869, May—Patrick Bell lived. He was inventor of an early type of a reaping machine, 1826. It was pushed before the team of horses. It lacked nothing in the way of proper gearing, but its cutting apparatus was defective.
1850—E. Danforth produced a mwoing machine, with two cutter blades moving in opposite directions.
1851—The first mowing-machines were made in United States.
