Who first came up with the idea for milking cows?
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it was invented by the first calf
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He came up with the Theory of Evolution
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The wild ancestors of cows were native to northern Africa, Europe, and southern Asia.
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As far as I know, it was invented by Martin Luther during the 1500's.  When he posted his Thesis against the Catholic Church, he used it to get the Word of God into the hands of the common people.
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He was the first to come up with a good system of classifying all life on earth. His system, with variations, is still in wide use today. \n\nVery Important Person to scientists!
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Louis Pasteur . He \n\ndiscovered that the purpose of cell division was reproduction. Also learned that living cells are dynamic. They use and produce energy and materials. Fermentative ability of microorganisms demonstrated between 1857 and 1876 by Pasteur - the father of biotechnology.
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I have never heard of it. I have butchered hogs (not commercially) and that idea has NEVER come up. I cannot see any logical reason to do it. I think he was making it up. How did he say he did it?
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The idea of a machine to cut grass was conceived in Gloucestershire, England around 1830 by freelance engineer Edwin Beard Budding, formerly a carpenter at Chalford, he was possibly inspired by a rotary cutter designed to cut the nap off wool cloth at the Brinscomb Mill. Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and expansive gardens as a superior alternative to the scythe. His patent of 25 October, 1830 described "a new combination and application of machinery for the purpose of cropping or shearing the vegetable surfaces of lawns, grass-plats and pleasure grounds." The patent went on to state, "country gentlemen may find in using my machine themselves an amusing, useful and healthy excercise."\n\nIn an agreement between John Ferrebee and Budding dated May 18, 1830, Ferrebee paid the costs of development, obtained letters of patent and acquired rights to manufacture, sell and license other manufacturers in the production of lawnmowers. (The agreement is housed in the Stroud Museum).\n\nOne of the first Budding and Ferrabee machines was used in Regent's Park, Zoological Gardens England, in 1831. It took ten years and further inovations to create a machine that could be worked by donkey or horse power and sixty years before a steam powered lawnmower was built. . Manufacture of lawn mowers began in the 1850s. By 1862, Farrabee's company was making eight models in various roller sizes up to 900 mm, (36 inches). He manufactured over five thousand machines until production ceased in 1863. Thomas Green produced the first chain driven mower in 1859, named the Silens Messor. Around 1900, one of the best known English machines was the Ransomes' Automaton, available as chain or gear driven. JP Engineering of Leicester, founded after World War One, produced a range of very popular chain driven mowers. About this time, an operator was allowed to ride behind animals that pulled the large machines. These were the first riding mowers.\n\nThe rise in popularity of sports such as lawn tennis, croquet, cricket, football and rugby helped prompt the invention. Lawn mowers became a more efficient alternative to simply relying on gardeners wielding the scythe, which left unsightly circular scars, or bare spaces caused by domesticated grazing animals\n\nSteam powered lawnmowers were patented in 1893 by James Sumner of Lancashire, England. His machine burned petrol and/or parrafin oil as a fuel. After numerous advances, the machines were sold by the Stott Fertilizer and Insecticide company of Manchester and later, the Sumner's took over sales. The company they controlled was called the Leyland Steam Motor Company. Numerous manufacturers entered the field with gasoline driven mowers after the turn of the century. The roller-drive lawnmower has changed very little since around 1930. The first grass boxes were flat trays but took their present shape in the 1860s.\n\nGang mowers, those with multiple sets of blades, were built in the United States in 1919 by a Mister Worthington. his company was taken over by the Jacobsen corporation but his name is still cast on the frames of their gang units.\n\nRotary mowers were not developed until engines were small and powerful enough to run the blades at a high speed. In the 1930s, Power Specialties Ltd. introduced a gas powered rotary mower. One company that produced rotary mowers commercially was the Australian Victa company, starting in 1947.
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Dr. Jeorge valvus in the year 1872, when they had to construct an irrigation system for a sugar can plantation and in the process this man invented the valve.\n\ngood luck.
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milkin' the cow and churnin' the butter ... listenin' to the radio show! :)
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anyone hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  i would kill cows.
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In china in the early ages where they used to stuff the skin of deers and some other animals with tiny rocks and form a sphere then kick it around into small holes. It was then transfered to the british who then made it world wide and spread it all around the world..\n\nSure of it and i can bet on my life..
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From the 16th century onwards, an essentially organic agriculture was gradually replaced by a farming system that depended on energy-intensive inputs. Mark Overton assesses the impact of this agrarian revolution.\n Jethro Tull ©  \n \n\n\nPage 1 of 6\n\n\n1. An enduring myth\n2. More food for more people\n3. Crop yields\n4. Farming systems\n5. More food per worker\n6. Find out more\n\n\nPrint entire article  An enduring myth\nFor many years the agricultural revolution in England was thought to have occurred because of three major changes: the selective breeding of livestock; the removal of common property rights to land; and new systems of cropping, involving turnips and clover. All this was thought to have been due to a group of heroic individuals, who, according to one account, are 'a band of men whose names are, or ought to be, household words with English farmers: Jethro Tull, Lord Townshend, Arthur Young, Bakewell, Coke of Holkham and the Collings.'\n\nThese men are seen as having triumphed over a conservative mass of country bumpkins. They are thought to have single-handedly, in a few years, transformed English agriculture from a peasant subsistence economy to a thriving capitalist agricultural system, capable of feeding the teeming millions in the new industrial cities.\n\nAll these details are in some dispute, but there is general agreement that the role of the 'Great Men' as pioneers and innovators has been exaggerated. 'Turnip' Townshend, for example, was a boy when turnips were first grown on his estate, and he could not, as the textbooks tell us, have introduced them from Hanover. Jethro Tull was something of a crank and not, as we have been told, the first person to invent a seed drill, which in any case was not used by farmers on any scale until a century after his treatise Horse hoeing husbandry was first published in 1731.\n\n'Arthur Young, the agricultural writer, has been described as a 'a mountebank, a charlatan and a scribbler'.'\nTo continue, Coke of Holkham was a great publicist (especially of his own achievements), but some of the farming practices he encouraged (such as the employment of the Norfolk four-course rotation in unsuitable conditions) may have been positively harmful. And Arthur Young, the agricultural writer, has been described as a 'a mountebank, a charlatan and a scribbler' by one author, although others see him as a proto-social scientist. Finally, Bakewell's New Leicester sheep was a success, but his Longhorn cattle were not. It seems that only the Collings brothers, who developed the shorthorn cattle breed, can escape criticism. Despite this evidence, the myths associated with these individuals have proved extremely difficult to dislodge from literature not directed at a specialist historical audience.\n\nMore food for more people\n\nA Shorthorn Bull Despite these criticisms, it is still argued that an English agricultural revolution happened in the century or so after 1750. One obvious reason behind the argument is the fact that an expanding population from this time on was largely fed by home production. In 1750 English population stood at about 5.7 million. It had probably reached this level before, in the Roman period, then around 1300, and again in 1650. But at each of these periods the population ceased to grow, essentially because agriculture could not respond to the pressure of feeding extra people. Contrary to expectation, however, population grew to unprecedented levels after 1750, reaching 16.6 million in 1850, and agricultural output expanded with it.\n\n'Low-intensity agricultural system based on fishing and fowling was replaced by a high-intensity system based on arable crops.'\nOne reason output grew was through new farming systems involving the rotation of turnips and clover, although these were part of the general intensification of agricultural production, with more food being produced from the same area of l
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If you are talking about the economist / theorist of the early 19th Century, you are thinking of Thomas Malthus.  (English, 1766-1834)\n\nMany science fiction books have been written based on his premises.
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Historically, the milking and the processing took place in the same place: on a dairy farm.\n\n \nMilking the old-fashioned wayPeople milked cows by hand, in some countries small numbers of cows are still milked by hand. Hand-milking is accomplished by grasping the teats (tits) in the hand and expressing milk by either squeezing the fingers, progressively, from the udder end to the tip or by squeezing the teat between thumb and index finger then moving the hand downward from udder towards the end of the teat. And repeat using both hands for speed. Both methods result in the milk that was trapped in the milk duct being squirted out the end into a bucket that is supported between the knees (or rests on the ground) of the milker who usually sits on a low stool to accomplish the milking task.\n\nIn early times the cow, or cows, would stand in the field or paddock while being milked. Young stock, heifers, would have to be trained to remain still to be milked. In many countries the cows were tethered to a post and milked. The problem with this method is that it still relies on quiet animals because the milking end of the cow is not restrained. In northern countries where cows are kept in barns in winter, and much of the rest of the year, they are still tethered only by the neck or head, particularly where they are kept in small numbers.
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The cell theory was originally developed by Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden, and fully accepted by the work of Louis Pasteur, specifically his work regarding microbes. The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1663. The first man to witness a live cell under a microscope was Anton Van Leeuwenhoek in 1673.♥
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I raised polled (naturally hornless) cattle but, I don't know of any other farmer that has enough time on his or her hands to plan dehorning around the moon!