History

Did you know that the Romans used a reaping machine to harvest their crops, two millennia before the mechanical reapers of the 19th century. The 'Gallic Reaper' was a wheeled contraption edged with blades, that caught the grain as it was pushed through the crops by draft animals. pic.twitter.com/NIA8kjtgGz

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) October 3, 2020