2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: AGRICULTURAL INVENTIONS POD 3: JEWELIA BRADLEY, ISAIAH GODWIN, PRESTON MARVEL AND ROSS GAUDET APRIL 4, 2014

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS Joseph Farwell Glidden Andrew Meikle Anna Baldwin John Smeaton End Slide Bibliography

4. JOSEPH FARWELL GLIDDEN Contributor of modern barbed wire Originally invented by Lucien B. Smith Before – No easy way to keep livestock from roaming, used Osage Bush After – Opened up the plains for large scale farming Created the Barb Fence Company, DeKalb, IL Also useful in trench warfare

5. THRESHING MACHINE-ANDREW MEIKLE Removed outer husk from grain Made in 1843 Early threshers were hand fed Put thousands of people out of work in England and Ireland

6. MILKING MACHINE –ANNA BALDWIN Made in 1878 She was in new jersey Not built for commercial use This was a large rubber cup connected to the udders and a hand held pump lever The milking machine had a tank for the milk to go

7. THE WATER WHEEL-JOHN SMEATON 1759 in England Machine used to convert the energy of free-flowing water to useful forms of power Was largely used in Industrial Revolution to power factories Allowed factories to move away from water ways and into cities where demand was higher Power made mass production possible in factories 2007-2013 StasoSphere

8. IMPORTANCE OF INVENTIONS Barbed Wire Opened up the Great Plains for industrial farming Alternative to wooden fences Used everyday Milking Machine Large scale milking Availability to purchase milk more commonly

9. IMPORTANCE OF INVENTIONS CONT. Water Wheel Powered Industries Created enough power to power machines in factories Mass production = more profit and jobs Threshing Machine Pro - Easier to produce more grain

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11. BIBLIOGRAPHY Joseph Glidden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Glidden http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0886844.html John Smeaton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_wheel http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/waterwheels/

12. BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTINUED… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smeaton Anna Baldwin http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/milker/milker.htm http://www.ask.com/question/who-invented-the-milking-machine http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarm.htm Andrew Miekle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Meikle http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/373349 /Andrew-Meikle