The English gentleman farmer whose 1701 seed drill and horse-drawn hoe made row cultivation practical, emblems of the British Agricultural Revolution. Tull's theory was largely wrong, he distrusted manure and believed tillage itself fed plants, but his machines were right, and the drill's straight rows changed field farming permanently. Not the rock band, which took his name. 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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Defining ContributionThe seed drill and horse-hoe husbandry 1 Connections
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Source Wikipedia: British Agricultural Revolution
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Tull's 1701 drill; earlier multi-tube drills existed in Han China
Source Wikipedia: Seed drill
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Source Jethro Tull, Agriculturist (Wikipedia)
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1. Jethro Tull, Agriculturist (Wikipedia)
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He developed a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows and later developed a horse-drawn hoe.
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