Engineers whose defining technological contribution is machinery, irrigation or processing technology built specifically for farming and food production: mechanized harvesting and planting equipment, irrigation and drainage systems, and the storage and processing machinery that moves a crop from field to market. Belongs here: engineers credited with a specific piece of farm machinery or an irrigation method rather than a general mechanical principle later applied to agriculture. Does not belong here: general-purpose engines and mechanisms adapted to farm use without a farming-specific design contribution, grouped under Mechanical Engineering, or the biological and chemical improvement of crops themselves, which belongs to the agriculture atlas rather than to this one.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
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WikipediaUnited States section, 1907 ASABE foundingQuote, United States section, 1907 ASABE founding
The American Society of Agricultural Engineers, now known as the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), was founded in 1907.
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