History of farming technology
44 inventos por año: de qué evolucionó cada uno y a qué llevó.
Cómo se conectan los inventos
- Molinillo de mano → Molino harinero → Molino de rodillos
- Hoz → Segadora → Cosechadora
- Azada → Arado → Arado de acero
| Año | Invento | Qué es | Evolucionó de | Llevó a |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90000 a. C. | Arpón | A thrown weapon with a barbed point. | Lanza | |
| 23000 a. C. | Anzuelo | A hook for catching fish. | ||
| 10000 a. C. | Hoz | A curved blade for harvesting. | Herramienta de piedra | Cortacésped, Cosechadora, Segadora, Guadaña |
| 10000 a. C. | Grano | The grain of cereals (wheat, barley, rice) grown in fields since the Neolithic. | ||
| 10000 a. C. | Domesticación | Taming plants and animals; the Neolithic Revolution. | ||
| 9000 a. C. | Piedra de molino | A stone disc for grinding grain. | ||
| 9000 a. C. | Molinillo de mano | Two stones for grinding grain. | Molino harinero, Trilladora | |
| 8000 a. C. | Red de pesca | A woven mesh for catching fish. | ||
| 6000 a. C. | Azada | A tool for loosening soil. | Herramienta de piedra | Arado |
| 6000 a. C. | Irrigación | Artificial watering of fields. | ||
| 5000 a. C. | Elaboración de cerveza | Making a drink by fermenting grain. | ||
| 4000 a. C. | Arado | A tool for tilling soil. | Azada | Arado de acero |
| 4000 a. C. | Yugo | A harness for a pair of oxen. | ||
| 3000 a. C. | Pala | A tool for digging. | ||
| 3000 a. C. | Cultivo en terrazas | Stepped fields on slopes. | ||
| 2000 a. C. | Shaduf | A well sweep for lifting water: a lever with a counterweight. | ||
| 1000 a. C. | Horca | A tool for hay. | ||
| 800 a. C. | Qanat | An underground channel that collects groundwater by gravity. | ||
| 500 a. C. | Guadaña | A long curved blade for mowing. | Hoz | Cortacésped |
| 400 a. C. | Incubadora | A device for hatching chicks; with a thermostat — Réaumur. | Incubadora neonatal | |
| 300 a. C. | Noria de agua | A water-lifting wheel with buckets turned by the current. | ||
| 300 a. C. | Molino harinero | A mill for grinding grain into flour. | Molinillo de mano | Molino de rodillos |
| 300 a. C. | Sakia | A water-lifting wheel driven by an animal through a gear. | ||
| 250 a. C. | Tornillo de Arquímedes | A screw inside a tube that lifts water as it turns. | Hélice, Barrena | |
| 30 | Invernadero | A glazed structure for growing plants. | Palacio de Cristal | |
| 300 | Mayal | A tool for threshing by hand. | Trilladora | |
| 800 | Rotación de cultivos | Alternating crops to preserve fertility (three-field system, Norfolk system). | Fertilizante mineral | |
| 1701 | Sembradora | Tull’s mechanical seed drill. | ||
| 1786 | Trilladora | A machine for threshing grain (Meikle). | Molinillo de mano, Mayal | Cosechadora |
| 1831 | Segadora | McCormick’s horse-drawn reaper. | Hoz | Cosechadora |
| 1835 | Cosechadora | A machine that reaps, threshes and cleans grain at the same time. | Hoz, Segadora, Trilladora | |
| 1837 | Arado de acero | Deere’s plough with a polished steel share. | Arado | |
| 1842 | Fertilizante mineral | Lawes’s superphosphate; nitrogen fertilizers. | Rotación de cultivos | |
| 1842 | Silo de grano | A granary with a bucket lift (Dart). | ||
| 1870 | Molino de rodillos | Grinding grain with steel rollers. | Molino harinero | |
| 1873 | Silo | A store for fodder and grain. | ||
| 1874 | Alambre de púas Joseph Glidden, Lucien B. Smith | Wire with barbs for fences (Glidden). | ||
| 1878 | Separadora de crema | A centrifuge that separates cream (de Laval). | ||
| 1892 | Tractor | A self-propelled machine for pulling farm implements. | Máquina de vapor de Watt | |
| 1892 | Ordeñadora | A vacuum milking machine. | ||
| 1929 | Hidroponía Francis Bacon, Aztec | Growing plants without soil. | ||
| 1939 | Pesticida | A crop-protection chemical (DDT). | ||
| 1959 | Riego por goteo | Delivering water to the roots through tubes (Blass). | ||
| 1983 | Cultivos transgénicos | Plants with an altered genome. |