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Agricultural Engineering

Also Known As Biosystems engineering (the name many university departments now use)
Agricultural Mechanization

The machines and systems side of farming: tractors, harvesters, irrigation works, grain storage and drainage. The engine as an engineering subject belongs to the Technology Atlas; this atlas keeps the machine as a farm implement and what it did to farm labor and yield. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Agricultural engineering is the engineering discipline that studies agricultural production and processing, combining mechanical, civil, electrical, food science and chemical engineering with agricultural principles. 1
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Irrigation, Practices
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1. Agricultural Engineering (Wikipedia)
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Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical, food science, environmental, software, and chemical engineering to improve the efficiency of farms and agribusiness enterprises as well as to ensure sustainability of natural and renewable resources.
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American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (Wikipedia)
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an international professional society devoted to agricultural and biological engineering. It was founded in December 1907
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Wikipedia: Irrigation
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Terrace, Earthworks (Wikipedia)
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Hydraulics
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Hydraulics (from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) 'water' and αὐλός (aulós) 'pipe') is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
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Internal Combustion Engine
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An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
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Bhavarlal Jain - Wikipedia
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founder chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd.
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Andrew Meikle (Wikipedia)
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Andrew Meikle (5 May 1719-27 November 1811) was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat.
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Benjamin Holt (Wikipedia)
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Benjamin Leroy Holt (January 1, 1849, December 5, 1920) was an American businessman and inventor who patented and manufactured the first practical crawler-type tread tractor.
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John Froelich (November 24, 1849, May 24, 1933) was an Iowan inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the first stable gasoline-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears.
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Obed Hussey (Wikipedia)
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His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick.
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Charles Walter Hart (Wikipedia)
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Together with Charles Henry Parr, he founded a company that produced a commercially successful line of gasoline-powered tractors.
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Jerome Case (Wikipedia)
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Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819, December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.
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Gerrit Braks, Wikipedia
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Braks worked as a agronomist and agricultural engineer in Eindhoven from January 1966 until April 1970 and as a civil servant for the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission from April 1970 until June 1977.
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Benjamin H. Warder, Wikipedia
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Benjamin Head Warder (November 15, 1824, January 13, 1894) was an American manufacturer of agricultural machinery, based in Springfield, Ohio, for much of his career.
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Wikipedia: Mason Vaugh
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Mason Vaugh (June 27, 1894, October 7, 1978) was an American agriculturalist who developed the first agricultural engineering department outside North America in 1921 at Allahabad Agricultural Institute.
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Wikipedia: Jean Rummenie
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Jean Frédéric Rummenie (Dutch: [ˈʑɑ̃ː ryməˈni]; born 13 July 1953) is a Dutch agricultural engineer, civil servant and politician of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB).
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Wikipedia: Isaya Kisekka
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Isaya Kisekka is a Ugandan American agricultural engineer who is a professor at University of California, Davis.
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Wikipedia: Abel Olajide Olorunnisola
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Abel Olajide Olorunnisola is a Nigerian professor of wood products engineering, agricultural engineer and university administrator.
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W. T. Godber (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Godber CBE (5 June 1904-18 April 1981) was an English authority on agriculture and agricultural engineering, an adviser to the British Government on agricultural matters, former president of the East of England Agricultural Society, former
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Fernando Abril Martorell (Wikipedia)
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Fernando Abril Martorell (31 August 1936-16 February 1998) was a Spanish politician and agricultural engineer.
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James Oliver (Wikipedia)
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After buying a South Bend, Indiana, foundry with partner Harvey Little in 1855 he began experimenting with improved farm plow designs.
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William Amos (agriculturist) (Wikipedia)
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He designed a number of improved agricultural machines and implements, and actively promoted more efficient farming techniques.
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Wikipedia: Benjamin Gale
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Throughout the next decade he would indulge in several business ventures and investments, which led to his invention of the drill plough.
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Elizee De Garis (Wikipedia)
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Elisha Clement "Elizee" De Garis (17 September 1851-2 July 1948) was an Australian irrigationist.
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