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The Farm Debut of the Gasoline Engine

Carrie A. Meyer
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 287–313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2013.87.3.287
Published: 01 July 2013
...Carrie A. Meyer Abstract Advertisements for internal combustion engines, commonly called gas engines, appeared regularly in farm magazines in the mid-1890s. By the century's turn, one hundred US companies produced stationary or portable gas engines for farmers. Fifteen years later, the number...
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A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines, 1793–1950

Cameron L. Saffell
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.2.258
Published: 01 April 2007
...Cameron L. Saffell Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines, 1793–1950 . T. Lindsay Baker . Book Reviews A Guide to United States Patents for Windmills and Wind Engines, 17931950. By T. Lindsay Baker. Watford...
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Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering

Dennis R. Cooley
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 121–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.1.121
Published: 01 January 2006
...Dennis R. Cooley Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering . Richard Hindmarsh and Geoffrey Lawrence . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 121 focuses on the Nantucket Island where the author sought isolation to concen? trate on her...
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Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

Brendan Matz
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 420–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.3.420
Published: 01 July 2010
... take the time to listen to it. Scott J.Peters Cornell University Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and theFuture of Seeds. By Claire Hope Cummings. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.232 pp., $16.00, paperback, ISBN 978-08070-8581-3. The title of this important contribution to contemporary debates about...
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Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War

Aaron Thomas
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 367–369.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2019.093.2.367
Published: 01 April 2019
...Aaron Thomas Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War . By David P. D. Munns . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2017 . 360 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8229-4474-4. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019...
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Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M: The First Hundred Years

Paul K. Nienkamp
Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 270–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2016.090.2.270
Published: 01 April 2016
...Paul K. Nienkamp Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&amp;M: The First Hundred Years . By Henry C. Dethloff and Stephen W. Searcy . College Station : Texas A&amp;M University Press , 2015 . 240 pp., $30.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-62349-289-2. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society...
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Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali

Bruce Whitehouse
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 712–714.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10779363
Published: 01 November 2023
...Bruce Whitehouse [email protected] Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali . By Laura Ann Twagira . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2021 . 344 pp., $36.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780821424681 . Copyright © 2023...
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Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety

Adam Guerin
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 716–718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10796146
Published: 01 November 2023
...Adam Guerin [email protected] Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety . By Philipp Lehmann . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2022 . 256 pp., $39.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780691168869 . Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...
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Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression

David Carey, Jr.
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 494–497.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11207077
Published: 01 August 2024
... on each acre” (83). This and similar observations in the book speak to its title: small-scale agriculture and its agriculturists were “tiny engines of abundance” (5). What makes efforts to discredit and even undermine small-scale agriculture so insidious is that the very organizations and individuals...
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Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry

Urmi Engineer
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 248–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.2.248
Published: 01 April 2017
...Urmi Engineer Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry . By Philip A. Howard . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $47.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-5952-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History...
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The Country Life Commission: Reconsidering a Milestone in American Agricultural History

Scott J. Peters, Paul A. Morgan
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 289–316.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-78.3.289
Published: 01 July 2004
... history, prevailing assessments are critical, negative, and often conflicting. Critics view it as an example of patronizing, technocratic social engineering aimed at urbanizing and industrializing the countryside to benefit national and industrial economic interests. Yet this interpretation...
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The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880–1905

Christopher W. Wells
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 143–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.2.143
Published: 01 April 2006
... resources to be husbanded--for the idea that they were "technological"--publicly owned tools to be engineered in the service of social ends. Second, how the shifting uses of rural roads, from groups of urban cyclists touring the countryside to mail carriers delivering letters to farmhouses, not only...
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Port Wine Landscape: Railroads, Phylloxera, and Agricultural Science

Marta Macedo
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 157–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.2.157
Published: 01 April 2011
... the land of port wine. Moreover, those engineering practices of rationalization, simplification, and standardization that were inscribed on Douro's landscape proved essential for the Portuguese experience of modernization and nation-building. © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 NOTES 1...
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Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Colonial New Deal: Modernization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935–1942

Geoff Burrows
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 293–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2017.091.3.293
Published: 01 July 2017
..., all relief and recovery programs were coordinated by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA), a locally run federal agency of the Second New Deal. Between 1935 and 1943, Puerto Rican engineers and workers constructed seven major hydroelectric projects in the Cordillera Central to generate...
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“Abandoned Little by Little:” The 1914 Pima Adjudication Survey, Water Deprivation, and Farming on the Pima Reservation

David H. Dejong
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 36–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.1.36
Published: 01 January 2007
...David H. Dejong Abstract In the first decade of the twentieth century, the United States Indian Irrigation Service attempted to quantify the amount of land currently and previously irrigated on the Pima Reservation. Using triangulation surveys, engineer Charles Southworth produced a series of maps...
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Fertile Grounds: Knowledge, Ceremony, and the Intensification of Maize

Patrick Bottiger
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 513–546.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10795855
Published: 01 November 2023
...Patrick Bottiger Abstract From 300 CE to 1800 CE, Indigenous North Americans initiated a great material and cosmological transformation. Indigenous peoples moved away from their more nomadic lifestyles by mastering hydrology to manage crop cycles, engineering building systems to house their growing...
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The Global Ascension of Corn and Soybeans: From Managing Supply to Expanding Production in the United States and the World

Bill Winders
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 470–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11225640
Published: 01 August 2024
..., the advent of genetically engineered seeds, and the expansion of the meat industry. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 agricultural policy feed grains global liberalization genetically engineered crops meat production T o understand...
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The Formative Years of Atomic Agriculture in Pakistan in a Long-Term Perspective

Mauro Elli
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11393917
Published: 01 November 2024
... centered on fuel cycle engineering; the importance of taking a long-term perspective on the relationships between atomic agriculture and agricultural research in general; and the significance of the concrete implementation of atomic agriculture from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. 31. “Secretary...
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“The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl

Joshua Nygren
Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 18–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-11470527
Published: 01 February 2025
...Joshua Nygren Abstract This article examines the origins, contours, and consequences of a bitter bureaucratic rivalry within the US Department of Agriculture on the eve of New Deal soil conservation programs. The conflict, which pitted agricultural engineers against soil scientists and agronomists...
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Two hydraulic formulas. The Chezy formula calculates velocity with variables for slope, hydraulic radius, and coefficient. Kutter’s formula refines the variable coefficient using additional factors like a roughness coefficient.

The Chezy formula (left), and the Chezy formula with Kutter's formula subst...

in “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl > Agricultural History
Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 2. The Chezy formula (left), and the Chezy formula with Kutter's formula substituted for c (right). Each of these formulas determines the velocity ( v ) of water in a stream channel. These formulas were widely accepted by engineers in 1913 when Ramser started working for the USDA More