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Martin Allen

John Heathcoat’s Steam Plough

Technology, Agriculture

TDGNHAS Series III, 89 (2015), 123(4.65 MB)

Abstract

John Heathcoat was the inventor of a steam ploughing engine which he demonstrated on marshland near Dumfries in 1837. The organisers were disappointed with its performance, and thereafter it was believed that the machine had sunk into the marsh; but there is evidence against that account of its fate.