John Fowler (agricultural engineer)

John Fowler ( born July 11, 1826 in Melksham, Wiltshire, † December 4, 1864 in Ackworth, Yorkshire ) was an English inventor and engineer.

Life

Fowler studied engineering in Middlesbrough -on-Tees. In 1850, he invented a system for drainage.

1852 Fowler began with attempts to use the steam engine in farming and in 1858 awarded the Royal Agricultural Society (Royal Agricultural Society) him a prize of 500 Lb for a steam plow, which she had advertised for an economical replacement of plow or spade.

By Fowler's two-machine system plow, harrow Krümler or be pulled back and forth on a tightrope between two alternately working " plow locomotives ".

1860 Fowler founded in Hunslet, Leeds, the company Fowler & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, traction engines & co. A well-known employee of this factory was the German engineer and writer Max Eyth. Eyth traveled on behalf of Fowlers to Egypt and sold the uncle of the viceroy several Fowler steam plow sets, as well as steam pumps, which took over the work of the water sampler. Eyth cultivated the entire Nile Delta with Fowler steam plowing and was in his name and in the U.S. as well as in Eastern Europe go.

His namesake, Sir John Fowler (1817-1898), an English engineer who planned together with Benjamin Baker, among others, the Firth of Forth Bridge in Edinburgh.