Thresher part

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1888
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1974.0322.008

MANUFACTURER: Waterloo Mfg. Co. Ltd.
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 8
Total Parts: 9
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Wood and metal thresher part

Dimensions

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Lexicon

Group: Agriculture
Category: Crop handling
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Manufacturer

AKA: Waterloo
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Waterloo

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Unknown
Canada: The Waterloo Champion Separator, a wood-framed thresher, was first manufactured by Bricker & Co. in 1880. The thresher featured grain-separating technology patented in the 1870s by John Beam. In 1888, E.W.B. Snider bought Bricker and incorporated it into the Waterloo Manufacturing Co. The Champion was made in eastern and western models; in 1908, Waterloo establishing a manufacturing plant in Portage la Prairie. The company continued to produce threshers into the 1940s.
Function: Unknown
Technical: Wheeled threshing machines were first introduced in the 1860s. Replacing stationary ground threshers, they further mechanized grain harvesting and increased the amount of grain a farmer could process in a day. Initially built of wood and powered by horse power, threshers were later powered by steam traction engines and gas tractors. The Waterloo Champion was a distinctive thresher with its high rear end and double gear wheels. This thresher is hand-decorated with painted scroll-work and pin-striping, a characteristic of agricultural implements made before the 20th century. Threshers of all-wood construction, such as this one were replaced in the early 20th century with threshers of all-steel construction; through the mid-20th century, wheeled threshers were replaced by combine harvesters, which merged reaping and threshing operations in one self-propelled machine.
Area Notes: Unknown

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Finish: Unknown
Decoration: N/A

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Waterloo Mfg. Co. Ltd., Thresher part, circa 1888, Artifact no. 1974.0322, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1974.0322.008/

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