Moses Coates and the invention that changed apple harvesting forever

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The Apple Pairing Machine Today a patent for an Apple Paring Machine was given to Moses Coates of Downington, Pennsylvania. Over the next hundred years, 150 different patents would be issued for apple parers – and most would be variations in improvements on Coates’s original machine. The parer that Moses created was a cranked wooden…

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The Brush Weeder: How Gus Miller Revolutionized Weed Management

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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 30, 1884 On this day, dear readers, the world welcomed one Gustav Leopold Miller – though you shall know him as Gus, for so he preferred – into its earthy embrace in…

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