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
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 … THE CEADLE. it must have been a Yankee invention, for it is notto be seen in any other country. In England, and in all 346 AGEICULTUEAL IMPLEMENTS. parts of Europe, where niachinery is not used, the sickleis still the instrument for the cutting of grain. The forging of scythes was once a very…
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