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John F. Appleby
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Portrait of inventor John F. Appleby. The Wisconsin inventor is credited with inventing a knotting mechanism that made twine grain binders possible in the late 1870s. The original caption reads: "John F. Appleby Inventor of Twine Binder."
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Walter A. Wood
July 1900
Portrait of inventor and entrepreneur Walter A. Wood. Wood founded and operated an agricultural machinery company in Hoosick Falls, New York.
Charles B. Withington
1909
Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Charles B. Withington, the inventor of the first practical wire binder. Withington was born in Akron, Ohio in 1830, grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin. A captio...
Beloit to honor inventor of first twine binder
Jun 01, 1911
Beloit Daily News
Grain Binder
1870
Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental.
International Harvester Agent in Japan
Mr. Asai and a woman (his wife?) standing on a rock. Mr. Asai was an International Harvester Company agent in Japan.
Gorham and Appleby were first to patent binder using twine for bundles
Dec 26, 1928
Beloit Daily News
