John Ridley |
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| Title : | John Ridley |
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| Date of creation : | ca. 1877 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 200 x 150 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Portrait of John Ridley, inventor of the'Ridley Reaper' harvesting machine. John Ridley was born in Durham, England and immigrated with his wife and young children to South Australia in 1839. He established a flour mill on land at Hindmarsh near Adelaide. As there was a labour shortage in South Australia in the 1840s, Ridley experimented with designs for a machine to reap wheat. His machine was to revolutionise the harvesting of wheat. Ridley returned in England in 1853 and died there in 1887. |
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| Related names : | Bull, John Wrathall, 1804-1886 Ridley, John, 1806-1887 |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Further reading : | Conigrave, JF. Agriculture in South Australia: a description of the South Australian seed-sower, stripper, and winnower, Adelaide: E. Spiller, 1883 'The death of Mr John Ridley',The Adelaide Observer, 3 December 1887, p. 30, col. b-d Kelly, WS. Rural development in South Australia, Adelaide: Rigby, 1962 Port, Leo with Brian Murray. Australian inventors, Stanmore, NSW: Cassell Australia, 1978 'Reaping machines', The Adelaide Observer, 28 January 1860, p. 2, col. e Reddin, JW. The first stripper : settling an historical argument, Glen Osmond, S. Aust. : J.W. Reddin, 1992 Reddin, J.W. Papers relating to 'The First Stripper: Settling an Historical Argument', D 8127(Misc) Schomburgk, Ian. 'The Ridley Stripper - the debate continues', History SA : newsletter of the Historical Society of SA Inc, 7 May 2007, p. 10 |
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