Jethro Tull’s seed drill | All About History
Aug 19, 2013 · The seeds, once dropped by the horsedrawn drill, were then covered by the harrow (a trailing bar), which gathered soil and evenly deposited it over the channels. For a detailed breakdown of Tull’s seed drill, check out the accompanying illustration.
Inspirational inventors | All About History
Mar 9, 2014 · Inventor, revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin is credited as the inventor of a number of contraptions, such as the lightning rod, harnessing electricity from storms, and the Franklin stove. He also proposed a number of theories to harness the power of nature, including a thesis on kites being ...
Archimedes’ screw | All About History
Aug 2, 2013 · Attributed to inventor and polymath Archimedes in the third century BCE, the Archimedes’ screw works by utilising the angular frequency and speed of a rotating thread to transfer water from a low-lying plane to a higher one. The machine consists of a hollow pipe angled at 45 degrees with a threaded screw encased within, which rotates once wound.
7 unbelievable inventions from Winston Churchill’s secret war lab
Mar 31, 2015 · Steel and aluminium were at a premium during the war, so when inventor Geoffrey Pyke, who worked at Combined Operation Headquarters (COHQ), was considering a way of protecting Atlantic convoys beyond the reach of aircraft cover, he realised the answer was ice: huge flotillas carved out of icebergs that could house aircraft and provide a runway.
Himmler’s Nazi Cycling Scam: How bike reflectors helped fund the ...
Feb 2, 2017 · One of Hitler’s former drivers, a part-time inventor and loyal party comrade, had started producing bicycle reflectors, to improve the visibility of riders on the roads at night. Fastening small pieces of glass to bicycle pedals that would reflect the …
My ancestor fought at Waterloo | All About History
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The Great Wall of China | All About History
Apr 11, 2014 · Contrary to popular belief you cannot actually see the Great Wall of China from the moon. According to scientists, trying to view the Great Wall from the moon would be the equivalent of a human trying to see a single strand of hair from a distance of two miles.
Did William Webb Ellis really invent rugby? | All About History
Sep 22, 2015 · Webb Ellis left the school in 1825. Yet in his second letter, written in October 1876, Bloxam named Webb Ellis as the inventor of the game. Quoting an unnamed source, he reported that carrying the ball was permitted after ‘the second half-year of 1823’, and that Ellis had been the first to do it.
First mechanical lawnmower | All About History
Jul 29, 2013 · Discover how grass was kept trim in the 19th century with Edwin Budding’s machine
Top 5 Facts About Nikola Tesla | All About History
Jun 17, 2019 · The inventor had a photographic memory and was known to memorise from heart complete books and images. He was also fluent in five languages and had a vivid imagination – he said that ideas for inventions appeared to him in visions ‘fully formed’ and he typically did not draw his inventions out by hand but worked solely on memory. 5.