John Fowler (inventor)

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John Fowler (born July 11, 1826 in Melksham , Wiltshire , † December 4, 1864 in Ackworth , Yorkshire ) was an English inventor and engineer.

Life

Fowler studied engineering at Middlesbrough -on-Tees. Around 1850 he invented a drainage system .

In 1852 Fowler began trying to use the steam engine in agriculture, and in 1858 the Royal Agricultural Society awarded him £ 500 for a steam plow that it had advertised as an economic replacement for a plow or spade .

In 1862 Fowler founded Fowler & Co. in Hunslet , Leeds , a manufacturer u. a. of agricultural machinery and locomobiles .

With Fowler's two-machine system , the plow, crumbler or harrow is pulled back and forth on a wire rope between two alternating " plow locomotives ".

Individual evidence

  1. John Fowler. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  2. Fowler, John . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 10 : Evangelical Church - Francis Joseph I . London 1910, p. 760 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).