Jethro Tull (agriculturist) - Wikipedia
WEBJethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 – 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe.
Jethro Tull and the Invention of the Seed Drill - ThoughtCo
WEBSep 2, 2024 · Jethro Tull's seed drill included a hopper to store the seed, a cylinder to move it, and a funnel to direct it. A plow at the front created the row, and a harrow at the back covered the seed with soil. It was the first agricultural machine with moving parts.
Jethro Tull’s seed drill | All About History
WEBAug 19, 2013 · A key invention during the British Agricultural Revolution, the seed drill allowed for a semi-automated, controlled distribution and plantation of wheat seed. Designed by renowned agriculturalist Jethro Tull in 1701, the drill went on to spawn many other mechanised planters and ploughs, which many of …
The pre-history of soil science: Jethro Tull, the invention of the …
WEBJan 1, 2010 · Eighteenth-century British gentleman farmer Jethro Tull (1674–1741) is popularly regarded as the inventor of the seed drill, widely cited by agricultural historians, soil scientists and school history textbooks alike.
Jethro Tull’s Seed Drill and the Agricultural Revolution
WEBTull’s seed drill’s invention enormously improved seed germination in British agriculture. Now the seed was more firmly rooted in the soil, was spread evenly and in an optimum way around fields, and was not exposed to …
Agricultural Revolution, Seed Drill & Inventor - Britannica
WEBJethro Tull (born 1674, Basildon, Berkshire, Eng.—died Feb. 21, 1741, Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford, Berkshire) was an English agronomist, agriculturist, writer, and inventor whose ideas helped form the basis of modern British agriculture. Tull trained for the bar, to which he was called in 1699.
Jethro Tull's Seed Drill - YouTube
WEBFirst ever agricultural machine at the start of the English Industrial Revolution (the world's first.)
BBC - History - Historic Figures: Jethro Tull (1674 - 1741)
WEBJethro Tull © Tull was an agricultural pioneer and the inventor of the seed drill, a major development in the agricultural revolution. Jethro Tull was born in 1674 into a family of Berkshire...
Jethro Tull - ASME
WEBJun 25, 2012 · Jethro Tull's seed drill. In 1701, Tull developed a horse-drawn mechanical seed drill. The drill incorporated a rotating cylinder in which grooves were cut to allow seed to pass from a hopper above to a funnel below.
JETHERO TULL AND THE INVENTION OF THE SEED DRILL
WEBJul 6, 2021 · One of the first pioneers who did something to change all that – who introduced to farming, through a single ingenious invention, a revolutionary element of mechanised control – was Jethro Tull, deviser of the seed drill. He was born in Berkshire in 1674 into a middle-class family of landowners.