Elise Bergerson. Picking up from where yesterdayâs interview left off, Jay Wilds continued to speak with The Intercept about Serial. Wilds opened up about meeting with Sarah Koenig during her reporting for the podcast and why he decided against appearing on Serial to present his side of the story.
Cyrus McCormick wanted to design equipment that would simplify farmers' work. In 1831, he invented a horse-drawn reaper to harvest grain and started selling it to others in 1840. It allowed the farmer to do five times the amount of harvesting in a day than they could by hand using a scythe.
When was the moldboard plow inveted? According to Robert Temple in his book, The Genius of China, a history of Chinese science and technology published in 1998, the Chinese invented the moldboard plow by t â¦ he third century B.C. Made of cast iron, the plowshare was shaped like a V, with the blade carving into the ground and the two arms arcing away like gull wings.