Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.5
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.5
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Similarly about the drill plough. The drill plough is said to have been first used in Europe by one Joseph Locatelli of Carinthia (Austria) in 1662.³ Its first introduction in England dates to 1730. But it took perhaps another 50 years before it was used on any scale. It was used in India (according to the authors of Chapters XII and XIII) from time immemorial. Observations of its use, by the British, however could only begin in the last decades of the eighteenth century, after its awareness had dawned on the more observant amongst them.