Talk:List of English inventions and discoveries/Temp

Category Invention / discovery Inventor / discoverer Date Ref
Agriculture Improved seed drill Tull Jethro Jethro Tull 1701 [1][2][3]
Agriculture Steam-driven ploughing engine John Fowler (agricultural engineer) 1852 [4]
Agriculture Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer John Bennet Lawes 1842 [5]
Agriculture The first commercially successful light farm tractor Dan Aldborne 1901 [6]
Agriculture Water desalination process Francis Bacon 1627 [7]
Agriculture Pioneering of selective breeding and artificial selection Robert Bakewell 1725 - 1795 [8]
Agriculture Pioneering of the development in dairy farming systems Rex Paterson 1955 [9]

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  1. ^ "Tiscali encyclopaedia: Seed drill".
  2. ^ "Jethro Tull (1674 - 1741)". BBC. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  3. ^ Floud, Roderick (2004). The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain. Cambridge University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0521527361.
  4. ^ "steamploughclub:Steam-driven ploughing engine-John Fowler".
  5. ^ "superphosphate-John Bennet Lawes".
  6. ^ "Science Museum London".
  7. ^ "History of water treatment". lenntech.com. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Robert Bakewell (1725 - 1795). bbc.co.uk/history. [[BBC]]". {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  9. ^ "Paterson, Rex (1955). Fertilizer Distribution - Problems of Corrosion Prevention on the Farm. The International Fertilizer Society (Proceeding 32)" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help)}