Ploughs

Examples

• Disk cultivators are those in which disk blades instead of ploughs are used with which to disturb the soil already broken. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This has been evidenced by the fact that in the United States alone nearly eleven thousand patents on ploughs were issued during the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They also contriv ed to temper the metal, and to make helmets, swords, lance-points, ploughs, tools, and other implements of iron. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The general features, the beam, handles, and share, have existed in ploughs from the earliest ages in history. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The inventions of centuries in ploughs have proceeded along the lines of the elements above enumerated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ridges of faces are thrown to this side and to that, and the ploughs go steadily onward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A walking cultivator is when the operator walks and guides the machine with the hands as with ploughs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Steam Ploughs: Implements for Preparing the Soil for Planting. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A man can manufacture a plough and operate it, but no amount of ploughs will create a man and endow him with skill. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is true that, as in the case of the ploughs, attempts had been made through the centuries to invent and improve seeding implements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ordinary ploughs are converted into cultivators by supplying them with double adjustable mould boards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No ploughs and no hoes have been found. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To begin with, perhaps, he just let his voice loose as one may hear Italian peasants now behind their ploughs singing songs without words. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• James Small of Scotland wrote of and made ploughs having a cast-iron mould board and cast and wrought iron shares in 1784-85. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Farmers refused, for instance, to use cast-iron ploughs as it was feared they would poison the soil. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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