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Threshers / by Pripps, Robert N.,1932-(CARDINAL)202328;
Includes bibliographical references (page 127) and index.
Subjects: Threshing machines;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Harvesting with combines / by Gray, R. B.(Roy Burton),1884-;
Subjects: Combines (Agricultural machinery); Harvesting machinery.; Threshing machines.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Primitive Threshing Machine Is Property of Western Stanly Man. by Morgan, Fred T.(CARDINAL)207860;
Subjects: Agriculture; Threshing machines;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Floyd Clymer's album of historical steam traction engines. by Clymer, Floyd,1895-1970,author.(CARDINAL)128263;
"470 photos, drawings, charts. 105 different makes, American and foreign engines from 1855 to 1929"--Cover.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Steam-engines; Traction-engines; Threshing machines; Tractors; Steam locomotives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The case catalog. by J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company,issuing body.(CARDINAL)893639;
67th (1909); title from cover.
Subjects: Catalogs.; J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company; Agricultural machinery; Threshing machines;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Heavy equipment / by Bruun, Erik A.,1961-(CARDINAL)637667; Keith, Buzzy,1948-(CARDINAL)644195;
Includes bibliographical references (page 126).
Subjects: Earthmoving machinery.; Farm tractors.; Power shovels.; Tunneling;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Farm / by Halley, Ned,author.(CARDINAL)344183; Brightling, Geoff,illustrator.(CARDINAL)207543; Brightling, Geoff.(CARDINAL)207543;
First farmers -- Animal power -- Tractor -- Plow -- Fields and soil -- Sowing the seed -- Protecting the crop -- Harvesting by hand -- Threshing and winnowing -- Threshing by machine -- Harvesting by machine -- Wheat to bread -- Favorite food -- Corn and potatoes -- Feeding the animals -- Truck farms -- Fruit farming -- Farmhouse and farmyard -- Barns and outbuildings -- Dairy farming -- Milk products -- Cattle farming -- Sheep farming -- Sheep shearing -- Goat farming -- Pig farming -- Chicken farming -- Ducks and geese -- Future of farming.Text and photographs depict different aspects of farming through the ages including the equipment, domestic animals, crops, and the future of farming.1180LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Farms;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 23
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Memories of route 3, box 28 and more : legacy of Wilburn Edward Welch and Alice Kimsey Welch clan / by Hedrick, Johanna Welch.; Miller, Shannon Welch.;
My dad: Wilburn Edward Welch -- My mama: Alice Kimsey Welch -- School days -- Chores on the farm -- The outhouse, the threshing machine, and Chrismas -- Fun things to do -- My first movie, first permanent and first reading glasses -- Graduation, first trip away from home, YMCA -- Our life in Charlotte -- Church -- Bits and pieces -- My siblings and me: Maude Augusta Welch Baldwin, Frank Artemus Welch, Eula Birdie Welch, Ralph Wayne Welch, Howard Taft Welch, Annie Muriel Welch, Thomas Paul Welch, Albert Frederich Welch, William Langford Welch, Lucy Mae Welch Catway, Addie Belle Welch Stanley, Edgar Earl Welch, Kenneth Lee Welch, Johanna Ruth Welch Hedrick, Louis Burton Welch -- Nieces and nephews -- Poems, songs, and final thoughts
Subjects: Biographies.; Hedrick, Johanna Welch. 1928-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The market preparation of Carolina rice : an illustrated history of innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom / by Porcher, Richard D.,Jr.(Richard Dwight)(CARDINAL)316622;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-361) and index.Foreword / David S. Shields -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A brief history of rice -- The origins and introductions of rice seeds -- The culture of Carolina rice -- Harvesting -- Threshing -- Milling -- City mills and large plantation toll mills -- The golden age of rice, 1800-1860 -- The last days of rice planting -- Epilogue / Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr. -- Appendix 1: Original field research plantations and sites -- Appendix 2: Museums with originally manufactured products and/or machinery -- Appendix 3: United States patents for rice-processing machinery, 1829-1887 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."The first full-length work to feature detailed illustrations and descriptions of the implements and machines used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets, Market preparation of Carolina rice includes 160 illustrations, most of them meticulously hand-drafted by Judd expressly for this edition. The text begins with the preindustrial implements and techniques used by slaves in the late 1600s and early 1700s and concludes with the water-powered and steam-powered machines that drove rice threshing and milling until the end of the industry in 1911. In great detail the authors reveal the immense, continually evolving technological innovations of an agricultural industry that spanned the industrial revolution, as well as the history of the colony and state"--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Rice trade; Rice;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Tennessee tragedies : natural, technological, and societal disasters in the Volunteer State / by Coggins, Allen R.,author.(CARDINAL)539120;
Includes bibliographical references.[Pt. 2, continued]: Kingston Coal Ash Reservoir Failure -- Airplane Crashes -- Fayetteville Flying Circus Airplane Crash -- Oliver Springs Airplane Crash -- Wrigley Airplane Crash -- Memphis Airplane Crash, 1944 -- Whigs Mountain Airplane Crash -- Clingmans Dome Airplane Crash -- Memphis Airplane Crash, 1947 -- Tri-Cities Airplane Crash -- Parrottsville Airplane Crash -- Parsons Bald Double Airplane Crash -- Cherokee National Forest Airplane Crash -- Highway Accidents -- Harrison Pike Train and Wagon Wreck -- Eads Train-School Bus Wreck -- Nashville Army Truck Wreck -- Spring City Train-School Bus Wreck -- National Guard Truck Wreck -- U.S. Highway 11W Bus-Truck Wreck -- Silliman Evans Bridge Auto Wreck -- I-75 Multivehicle Wreck -- Railroad Accidents -- Reynolds Station Train Wreck -- Flat Creek Train Wreck -- New Market Train Wreck -- Chattanooga Streetcar Wreck -- Runaway Mine Cars-Train Wreck -- Sherwood Train Wreck -- Dutchman's Grade Train Wreck -- Glen Mary Train Wreck -- Helenwood Train Wreck -- Waverly Train Wreck -- High Cliff Train Wreck -- Riverboat Accidents -- Helen McGregor Riverboat Disaster -- Brandywine Riverboat Disaster -- Belle of Clarksville Riverboat Disaster -- Sultana Riverboat Disaster -- Silver Spray Riverboat Disaster -- Crescent City Towboat Disaster -- Golden City Riverboat Disaster -- M.E. Norman Riverboat Disaster --Pt. 1, Natural disasters -- Droughts and Severe Heat Waves -- Drought of 1930-31 -- Drought of 1984-88 -- Severe Heat Wave of 1980 -- Earthquakes -- New Madrid Earthquakes -- Epidemics and Pandemics -- Cholera -- Influenza -- Smallpox -- Yellow Fever -- Wildland Fires -- Slow-Rise and Flash Floods -- Floods of 1867 -- Floods of 1882 -- Floods of 1901 -- Floods of 1902 -- Cardens Bluff Flash Flood -- Floods of 1926-27 -- Floods of 1929 -- Whites Creek Flash Flood -- Floods of 1936-37 -- Pittman Center Flash Flood -- Floods of 1963 -- Clinchmore Flash Flood -- Red Boiling Springs Flash Flood -- Floods of May 1-3, 2010 -- Floods of April-May 2011 -- Tornadoes and Straight-Line Winds -- Tornadoes of 1900 -- Tornadoes of 1909 -- Tornadoes of 1923 -- Tornadoes of 1925 -- East Nashville Tornado, 1933 -- Tornado Super Outbreak of 1952 -- Tornado Super Outbreak of 1974 -- Tornadoes of 2002 -- Tornadoes of 2003 -- Tornadoes of 2008 -- Winter Storms: Snow, Ice, and Extreme Cold -- The Year without Summer, 1816 -- Severe Winter Storms of 1899 -- Severe Winter Storms of 1917-18 -- Severe Winter Storms of 1940 -- Blizzard of 1951 -- Ice Storm of 1960 -- Severe Winter Storms of 1993 -- Severe Winter Storms of 1994 --Pt. 2, Technological disasters: Explosions -- Hartsville Threshing Machine Explosion -- Sycamore Powder Mill Explosion -- Jellico Railroad Yard Explosion -- Colyar Reese Oil Plant Explosion -- Bristol Service Station Explosion -- Texaco River Terminal Gasoline Explosion -- Tennessee Eastman Chemical Plant Explosion -- Waverly Liquid Propane Gas Explosion -- West Haven Home Explosion -- Benton Fireworks Factory Explosion -- Liquid Propane Gas Tanker Truck Explosion -- Pyro Shows Inc. Explosion -- Structure Fires -- Specht Bakery Fire -- Memphis Navy Yard Fire -- Nashville Insane Asylum Fire -- Knoxville's Million Dollar Fire -- Memphis Front Street Fire -- East Nashville Fire -- Old Hickory Powder Plant Fire -- Memphis Industrial Settlement Home Fire -- Southern Hotel Fire -- State Fairgrounds Fire -- Maury County Jail Fire -- Johnson City Retirement Home Fire -- Nashville Healthcare Center Fire -- Mine and Quarry Disasters -- Nelson Mine Disaster, 1895 -- Richland Mine Disaster -- Fraterville Mine Disaster -- Nelson Mine Disaster, 1902 -- Cross Mountain Mine Disaster -- Flat Rock Mine Disaster -- Strawberry Plains Quarry Explosion -- Roane Iron Company Mine Disaster, 1925 -- Roane Iron Company Mine Disaster, 1926 -- Burra Burra Copper Mine Disaster -- Nu Rex Mine Disaster -- Phillips and West Mine Disaster -- Whitwell Mine Disaster -- Structure Failures -- Maxwell House Stairway Collapse -- Pinkney Mine Tipple Collapse -- Nashville Reservoir Failure -- Barren Creek Dam Failures -- Cookeville Power Dam Failure -- Owl Creek Bridge Collapse -- Hatchie River Bridge CollapsePt. 3, Societal disasters: Labor Wars, Strikes, and Economic Disasters -- Economic Panic of 1857-58 -- Coal Creek Miners Wars -- Economic Panic of 1893 -- Black Patch War -- Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake -- Chattanooga Streetcar Strike -- Knoxville Streetcar Strike -- South Pittsburg Gunfight -- Aluminum Company of America Labor Strike -- Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike -- Memphis Firefighters Strike -- Tennessee Banking Empire Failure -- Race Riots and Racial Violence -- KKK Insurrection and the Invisible Empire -- Memphis Racial Massacre -- Franklin Race Riot -- White Capping in Sevier County -- White Capping in Marshall County -- Knoxville Race Riot -- Columbia Race Riot -- Clinton Racial Violence -- Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination -- Lynching and Hate Crimes -- Gibson County Mass Lynching -- Mormon Massacre -- Eph Grizzard Lynching -- Shelby County Lynching -- Wild Bill Latura Assault -- Eli Persons Lynching -- Bloody Family Feuds and Political Conflicts -- Greene-Jones War -- The Battle of Athens -- Appendix -- Tables.". . . Tennessee tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past several centuries ... At the center of the book are descriptive accounts of 150 of the state's most severe events. These range from smallpox epidemics in the eighteenth century to the epic floods of 1936-37, from the Sultana riverboat disaster of 1865 (the worst inland marine accident in U.S. history) to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Included as well are stories of plane crashes, train wrecks, droughts, economic panics, and race riots. An extensive chronology provides further details on more than 900 incidents, the most complete listing ever compiled for a single state."--Jacket.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Disasters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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