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Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (born 1719)
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Andrew Meikle
Scottish engineer (1719–1811)
Andrew Meikle was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat. He also had a hand in assisting Firbeck in the invention of the Rotherham Plough. This was regarded as one of the key…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Threshing machine
Agricultural machine
A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. Before such machines were developed, threshing was done by hand with flails: such hand threshing was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)