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John Heathcoat’s Steam Plough
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.