Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 14, 1802
Primary Source Reference:
Philadelphia Gazette, 14 June 1802
Additional Source Text:
"Dr. Maise has presented a drill-plough, and a plough for weeding and hoeing, particularly for garden use." Philadelphia Gazette, 14 June 1803
Notes:
A model of the Rev. James Cooke's plough-drill machinery was imported from England by the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia, of which Mease was an officer; that may have been the model Mease presented to the Museum. A. F. M. Willich, The Domestic Encyclopedia; or A dictionary of Facts and Useful Knowledge Chiefly Applicable to Rural & Domestic Economy, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1821), 2: 64 / https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015009222897?urlappend=%3Bseq=82
Cooke's invention, for which he received a patent about 1784, is described and illustrated in the 4-volume, London 1802 edition of The Domestic Encyclopedia, 2: pp.168-172 / https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7pn90k7w?urlappend=%3Bseq=1… / and plate following p. 168, pictured here.
