| From the 18th century onward, new agricultural machines began to replace more and more of the traditional farming implements that had been used for centuries. The seed drill invented by Jethro Tull was an important development, as was the cast-iron plough patented by Robert Ransome in 1803. Such inventions helped fuel the immense increase of farm productivity in Britain’s Agricultural Revolution, which both stimulated and benefited from the Industrial Revolution. However, improvements in crop rotation, fertilizers, and plant and animal strains were as important to this process as machinery. |
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