| With draught oxen being replaced by the more versatile heavy horse breeds in 18th century Britain, Victorian ingenuity of the Industrial Revolution produced a wide range of horse-drawn agricultural machinery. Fields had been ploughed by draught animals for centuries, but suddenly new horse-drawn machinery included not just plows, but grubbers, cultivators, harrows, rollers, drills, reapers, binders, root lifters, manure spreaders and rakes. This book describes and illustrates these machines, the horses and their harness, inventors and manufacturers and lists the places where the machines can be seen today. |
