Title

Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Top: original form of the machine powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by a water wheel.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1811

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_146

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,1Mb (2,6Mb) / 9,6in x 12,2in / 2880 x 3650 (300dpi)

Keywords

water England cereal agriculture event technology engineering country power grain science water power British English Scotland machine machinery wheel location SCOTTISH century Britain diagram threshing concept invention B&W MONOCHROME metaphor industrial revolution 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century Scots water wheel Oxford Science Archive horse power threshing machine engraving Unknown Andrew Andrew Meikle Meikle Andrew Meikle engraving