Inventors and designers of farm tools, machines and fencing, from medieval Chinese writers on farm implements to American makers of the cotton gin and barbed wire. A person belongs here when the cited article describes them as an inventor, mechanical engineer or designer of agricultural machines and implements, with a named invention that changed how farm work was done and how land was enclosed or harvested.
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Joseph Glidden (Wikipedia)
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He was the inventor of the modern barbed wire.
Eli Whitney (Wikipedia)
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(December 8, 1765, January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Wang Zhen (inventor) - Wikipedia
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Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade-Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290-1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).
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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