Show IT r Great Great And Discoveries Inventions ml tel pt n 11 F THE GRAIN CRADLE 1 j From From the beginning of ot settled so society so so- clety right down to the last decade of the eighteenth century from century from old King KIn Cheop who built the great pyramid lj re to Washington and Napoleon Napoleon the th only Instrument that men had tor or har bar t tonly be ber vesting their grain w was ws s the tho old fash tuh l Id f r sickle I f fIn In 1791 1794 a a. Scotchman named MurchIson son Invented the grain cradle with IU its set of ot ringers fingers arranged above a al sc scythe the blade Invention was th the e best beat and only reaping machine known un un un-j til well along In the nineteenth cen I tury th In the meantime meantime- Invention wai was was' busy In 1799 the Englishman Boyce hit upon the Idea of ot a machine to b be operated by hors horsepower po er in In 1800 and 1305 1805 Mears Meara and introduced the shears and the horizontally TO roo tating circular blades and in 18 1807 7 Salone Sa Sa- Sa lonel lone added vibrating knives ove o stationary blades with fingers to gather the grain for the cutters and anda a rake to carry the mown grain train to toone toone toone one side j jIn In 18 1822 2 the key idea of ot the successful success success- successful ful reaper was was' reached by Ogle of England gl who h hit upon P the reciprocating 1 Fn h Ing bar knife ie the movement which has prevailed down to the present time But with all aU of ot these machines there I IU was t this fundamental d problem problem new fth now could U d dt they bo be made to dispense with the men required to follow them In m I IAn binding up and gathering In th thi th fillen taUNo taU fill en cia An grain fn fP j jNo Ilo No sooner Booner was this handicap presented presented pre pre- pre pre- to the attention of the AmerIcan Amerlean Amer lean Ican than he set about I I Ithe the tho task of finding a way out of oC the r i iThe I difficulty The remedy was forthcoming In the shape of ot a machine that was put on exhibition at the Vienna exposition of 1873 f This machine wa was able t to roll the grain Into bundles automatically bind it and drop the bundles In regular order upon the ground About the year 1879 came the twine binder and the work was complete Think of ot the almost miraculous In Invention invention In- In of ot a machine which automatically automatIcally automat automat- platform W cuts s separates the rf grain n and i elevates e rolls it it Il tp Into t a sheaves seizes a stout cord from Broll a B aroll roll wraps raps it about the sheaf sheat ties a a. second knot cuts the cord and brows vs the bundles to one side upon pon the ground Think of or such a a. machine In hi comparison comparison com corn parison with the old fashioned sickle that was in use uee from the building orthe ot or the pyramids pyramid to the establishment of oC the United States state of ot America This would seem to be the tha limit but think of the combined harvester and thresher by bv which the Hili grain Is la carried directly from the harvester to the thresher from which the grain grains Js 18 s put put In Into C hags bags all ready for tor shipment ship ment We Vo read with amazement of the making of the West Vest but do we duty duly I reflect upon the fact tact that had haTi It not I been for tor these wonderful machines I Ithe the West Vest might today lie right where it was a century ago |