History of farming technology
44 Erfindungen nach Jahr: woraus sich jede entwickelte und wozu sie führte.
Wie die Erfindungen zusammenhängen
- Quern → Gristmill → Roller mill
- Sickle → Reaper → Mähdrescher
- Hoe → Plough → Steel plough
| Jahr | Erfindung | Was es ist | Entwickelt aus | Führte zu |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90000 v. Chr. | Harpoon | A thrown weapon with a barbed point. | Spear | |
| 23000 v. Chr. | Fish hook | A hook for catching fish. | ||
| 10000 v. Chr. | Sickle | A curved blade for harvesting. | Stone tool | Lawn mower, Mähdrescher, Reaper, Scythe |
| 10000 v. Chr. | Grain | The grain of cereals (wheat, barley, rice) grown in fields since the Neolithic. | ||
| 10000 v. Chr. | Domestizierung | Taming plants and animals; the Neolithic Revolution. | ||
| 9000 v. Chr. | Millstone | A stone disc for grinding grain. | ||
| 9000 v. Chr. | Quern | Two stones for grinding grain. | Gristmill, Threshing machine | |
| 8000 v. Chr. | Fishing net | A woven mesh for catching fish. | ||
| 6000 v. Chr. | Hoe | A tool for loosening soil. | Stone tool | Plough |
| 6000 v. Chr. | Irrigation | Artificial watering of fields. | ||
| 5000 v. Chr. | Bierbrauerei | Making a drink by fermenting grain. | ||
| 4000 v. Chr. | Plough | A tool for tilling soil. | Hoe | Steel plough |
| 4000 v. Chr. | Yoke | A harness for a pair of oxen. | ||
| 3000 v. Chr. | Shovel | A tool for digging. | ||
| 3000 v. Chr. | Terrace farming | Stepped fields on slopes. | ||
| 2000 v. Chr. | Shaduf | A well sweep for lifting water: a lever with a counterweight. | ||
| 1000 v. Chr. | Pitchfork | A tool for hay. | ||
| 800 v. Chr. | Qanat | An underground channel that collects groundwater by gravity. | ||
| 500 v. Chr. | Scythe | A long curved blade for mowing. | Sickle | Lawn mower |
| 400 v. Chr. | Incubator | A device for hatching chicks; with a thermostat — Réaumur. | Infant incubator | |
| 300 v. Chr. | Noria | A water-lifting wheel with buckets turned by the current. | ||
| 300 v. Chr. | Gristmill | A mill for grinding grain into flour. | Quern | Roller mill |
| 300 v. Chr. | Sakia | A water-lifting wheel driven by an animal through a gear. | ||
| 250 v. Chr. | Archimedische Schraube | A screw inside a tube that lifts water as it turns. | Propeller, Erdbohrer | |
| 30 | Greenhouse | A glazed structure for growing plants. | Kristallpalast | |
| 300 | Flail | A tool for threshing by hand. | Threshing machine | |
| 800 | Fruchtfolge | Alternating crops to preserve fertility (three-field system, Norfolk system). | Mineraldünger | |
| 1701 | Seed drill | Tull’s mechanical seed drill. | ||
| 1786 | Threshing machine | A machine for threshing grain (Meikle). | Quern, Flail | Mähdrescher |
| 1831 | Reaper | McCormick’s horse-drawn reaper. | Sickle | Mähdrescher |
| 1835 | Mähdrescher | A machine that reaps, threshes and cleans grain at the same time. | Sickle, Reaper, Threshing machine | |
| 1837 | Steel plough | Deere’s plough with a polished steel share. | Plough | |
| 1842 | Mineraldünger | Lawes’s superphosphate; nitrogen fertilizers. | Fruchtfolge | |
| 1842 | Grain elevator | A granary with a bucket lift (Dart). | ||
| 1870 | Roller mill | Grinding grain with steel rollers. | Gristmill | |
| 1873 | Silo | A store for fodder and grain. | ||
| 1874 | Stacheldraht Joseph Glidden, Lucien B. Smith | Wire with barbs for fences (Glidden). | ||
| 1878 | Cream separator | A centrifuge that separates cream (de Laval). | ||
| 1892 | Tractor | A self-propelled machine for pulling farm implements. | Watt steam engine | |
| 1892 | Milking machine | A vacuum milking machine. | ||
| 1929 | Hydroponics Francis Bacon, Aztec | Growing plants without soil. | ||
| 1939 | Pesticide | A crop-protection chemical (DDT). | ||
| 1959 | Tröpfchenbewässerung | Delivering water to the roots through tubes (Blass). | ||
| 1983 | Genetically modified crops | Plants with an altered genome. |