Appendix to the specifications of english patents for reaping machines (1853)
Woodcroft, Bennet · published under the sanction of the commissioners of patents, by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode · leaf 16
iI … APPENDIX TO ENGLISH PATENTED REAPING MACHINES . HE Sickle is an instrument for reaping of great antiquity . We find it mentioned in the Bible and New Testament , in the following passages : — Deut eronomy xiii . 24 , 25 ; Isaiah xvii . 5 ; Jeremiah i . 16 ; Revelations xiv . 15,16 . From the state…
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