Thresher Machine
Agricultural Museum of New Brunswick
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| Nom de l'objet : | Thresher Machine |
| Artiste ou artisan : | Wallace Manufacturing Ltd. |
| Type de l'objet : | Threshing |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Agricultural T&E |
| Matériaux : | Wood Metal |
| Numéro d'accession : | AgrMNB-998-7184 |
| Description : | Threshing Machine - Little Giant - Completely repainted brownish red with black metal; yellow painted writing on the metal Source for date, etc. (http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=1174) |
| Commentaires : | A thresher was a very important machine on the farm. Its' job was to separate the grain from its' stalks and husks which without this machine would have had to have been done by hand. The Sussex Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and later taken over by the Wallace family changing the name to Wallace machines works, was one of the leading factoring in making threshers called "The Little Giant". This factory in Sussex employed over 150 people and helped make Sussex what it is today. |
| Fonctions : | Used to thresh grain around the world. The first threshing machine was thought to have been invented by a Scottish man named Andrew Meikle in 1778. This machine would come to replace the hand flails that had been used previously. However replacing the old flails caused a lot of men to be put out of work since a farmer now only needed a handful of people to run the machine. This was one of the causes of the Swing Riots in 1830. Over 100 threshing machines were burned or otherwise destroyed. This loss of employment would follow the threshing machine wherever it went. The same of course can be said for all mechanization of any workforce or field of employment. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Meikle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots |
| Hauteur : | 5'11 |
| Longueur : | 15'3 |
| Largeur : | 6 |
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Agricultural Museum of New Brunswick
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Sussex |
| Province de l'établissement : | New Brunswick |
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