[Jethro Tull] is a name you may well associate with ... and who invented among other things the mechanical seed drill. Were [Tull] alive today he would no doubt be impressed by the work of ...

Jethro Tull (1674 - 1741)was a pioneer in agricultural development throughout the early 1700s. He is credited with having invented the seed drill, which he perfected by 1714; a machine which ...