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Title
Improved Combined Thresher and Winnower
Description
Portion of an advertisement for horse-powered machinery depicts a team on treadmill with the company's patented "endless chain railway." Its purpose was to process harvested grains like wheat or barley and eliminate the arduous work of separating kernels from the head. Among the many advertisements for agricultural machinery, this image is relatively unique in showing several workers using the equipment. It sold for $245--or about $8,500 in contemporary terms--and thus represented a significant investment for farmers. New York State Agricultural Works was run by engineers Alonzo Wheeler and William B. Melick in Albany, NY where it persisted until bankruptcy in 1888.
Creator
Ferguson, Hiram
Publisher
Wheeler, Melick and Company
Date
1857?
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
Format
jpeg, 1.4 MB
Type
Still image
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Original Format
Engraved advertisement