Agriculture and Food

Whitney's toothed cylinder separated seeds from short-staple cotton fifty times faster than hand labor. His business model of mono...

Confectioner Appert won Napoleon's 12,000 franc prize for preserving food by heating it in sealed champagne bottles, patenting the...

McCormick patented his horse-drawn reaper and built Chicago's largest factory on it. The 1851 Crystal Palace exhibit dazzled Brita...

Pasteur patented heating and cooling to stop fermentation spoilage, applying his germ theory. His 1873 US patent covered improving...

Glidden, a farmer, twisted two wires holding barbs and patented the design that beat dozens of rivals. Sales exploded as the treel...

Holt patented the continuous-tread tractor after photographing one of his wheels sinking in San Joaquin delta peat. The Caterpilla...