Rotherham plough
Arado de Rotherham (arado holandés ligero)
- Date
- 1730 · confidence high
- Place
- Rotherham, Yorkshire, England
- Credited to
- Joseph Foljambe and Disney Stanyforth (1730 patent); Dutch model
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A light plough with a curved, iron-clad mouldboard and a triangular frame, derived from the Dutch plough and pulled by two horses without a ploughboy. The first plough to be mass-produced and designed on scientific principles.
What it led to
- Less draught power needed and greater ploughing productivity
- Mass production of agricultural implements
- Ransome's cast-iron ploughs (1785)
Built on
- Cast-iron mouldboard ploughc. 100 BCE
- Medieval mouldboard plough
- Dutch plough (Hollandse ploeg)
Made possible
- Steel plow1837
- Small's plough (mathematical design, 1784)