The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian CourtLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Palace and Park: Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England)
The threshing-machines are numerous, and are of very excellent
construction. The improvements that have been made in them are very
striking. It is really a curious sight to see the sheaves of wheat
placed in at one end, and the winnowed grain passing out ready sorted
into bags at the other; while the straw is carried by a mechanical
contrivance to carts to be taken away. Here also we see digging
machines, to perform wholesale the ancient duty of the plough, which was
at all times an imperfect implement. The ploughs, however, that are
shown are of the very best description, with many useful improvements.
Portable houses for emigrants and others, and an immense assortment of
entrance gates, and of poultry, sheep, and cattle fencing are also here
to be found.
Haymaking machines for scattering the hay, and horse-rakes, are
important substitutions for hand-labour. Draining-ploughs, for preparing
a pathway for the pipes, and for laying the tiles, and draining levels
are also exhibited. A large collection of chaff-cutters, bruising and
grinding mills, oilcake breakers, steaming apparatus and pulping
machines (the pulping machines are for preparing food, such as turnips
or carrots, for cattle), grass-mowing machines, both for hand and
horse-power, carts of every description, liquid manure carts, field
rollers, and several descriptions of clodcrushers, brick and the
machines, mortising and boring machines very well suited for making
gates and hurdles, makes up the sum of this interesting exhibition.
THE MACHINERY IN MOTION.
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