1778 - Agriculture
Agriculture
Scottish millwright Andrew Meikle, 59, constructs a pioneer threshing machine; it rubs the grain between a rotating drum and a concave metal sheet, but although it removes husks from grain it is a commercial failure (see 1786; Menzies, 1734).
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