TY - JOUR
AU - MERCER, HENERY C.
AB - DECEMBER 17, 1927. 444 NOTES AND QUERIES. was refused at Munich in 1841 on the ground Replies. of plagiarism, (c/. F. M. Feldhaus' ' Tech- nik der Vorzeit,' Englemann, Leipzig, 1914, INTRODUCTION OF article ' Tretmachinen ')• Abundant evidence in old books shows that AGRICULTURAL MACHINES. the ancient tread-mill in which a man or (cliii. 347). animal walked inside or outside a wheel TpOR comparison with parallel happenings in revolving vertically, or outside a wheel revolv- •*• England, the following notes upon the ing horizontally, differed materially in con- abandonment of the flail for threshing rye, struction from this apparatus of Guilbaud.. wheat and oats in the United States in the and of Feldhaus is right, Meikle, whose nineteenth century, may be of interest. patent is briefly described in the ' British As is generally admitted in dictionaries, Chronological Index of Patents,' as " capable various European devices for threshing grain of being worked by cattle, wind, water or any •culminated at the end of the eighteenth cen- other power," can have known nothing of tury in an invention by Andrew Meikle, of any such rolling platform. It would seem Knows Mill, Whitekirk, East Lothian, in probable, therefore, that 
TI - INTRODUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES
JO - Notes and Queries
DA - 1927-12-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/introduction-of-agricultural-machines-GNaOKHABW7
SP - 444
EP - 445
VL - CLIII
IS - dec17
DP - DeepDyve
ER -