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Description Threshing Sled (Tunisie).png |
English:
«Threshing Sled. Tunisian Exhibit. The implement, named
mowrej
by the Arabs, and
tribulum
by the ancient Romans, does not seem to have been changed in twenty-five hundred years. It is made of wooden boards turned up in front, and with spalls of flint set into the under surface. dragged over the flooring of grain. The implement was purchased for our National Museum and may be seen in Washington»
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Source | Abstract and figure from Edward H. Knight : Crude and Curious Inventions at the Centennial Exhibition, VI. [The Atlantic monthly. / Volume 40, Issue 204, October 1877] , page 422. | |||||
Author | Edward H. Knight | |||||
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