The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 350
he and the sickle to the peaceful pursuits of agri-culture. The earlier scythe was a curved blade, fas-tened at right angles to the end of a straight stick. Indeference to aching backs, the handle or snath wasbent so that less effort on the part of the wielder gavegreater results. The broad strip… … THE SICKLE. the fingers, and the whole became a cradle for thecutting and laying grain in swathes, with the head ofthe grain all laid in one direction, cannot be stated; but
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