A brief narrative of the invention of reaping machines and an examination of the claims for priority of invention / by a Maryland farmer and machinist [i.e., E. Stabler].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stabler, E. (Edward), 1794-1883.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harvesting machinery--United States--History.

Harvesting machinery.

Harvesting machinery--Technological innovations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2], 100 [2] p., [1] leaf of plates ) ill., port. ;

Place of Publication:

[Chicago, Ill.] : Reprinted by the W.B. Conkey Co., 1897.

Notes:

"Also a short appendix, consisting of English publications as to the operation and success of reaping machines in England in the years 1851, 1852 and 1853."

"Baltimore: from the press of Mills & Cox (office of the "American farmer"), no. 128 Baltimore Street. 1854."

"A review of the pamphlet of W.N.P. Fitzgerald ... in opposition to the extension of the patent of Obed Hussey : and also of the defence, or evidence in favour of said extension : with a narrative or brief history of reaping machines ... / [by Edward Stabler]. Baltimore ... 1855. [Chicago] : Reprinted by the W.B. Conkey Company, 1897": p. [69]-100, 2nd count.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 90021.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Contains:

Review of the pamphlet of W.N.P. Fitzgerald.

OCLC:

13