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Andrew Meikle

Inventor

Citation Formats

General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Andrew Meikle." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/figures/andrew-meikle.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Andrew Meikle. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/figures/andrew-meikle

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-andrew-meikle,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Andrew Meikle},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/figures/andrew-meikle},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Scottish millwright and mechanical engineer of East Lothian, credited with inventing the threshing machine that mechanized the separation of grain from stalk and husk, one of the signature advances of the British Agricultural Revolution.

Facts

Birth Year

1719 1

Death Year

1811 1

Nationality

Scottish 1

Defining Contribution

Built a working threshing machine using fluted feed rollers and a rotating drum around 1786 at Houston Mill, East Lothian, and patented it in 1788; widespread adoption of the machine later helped trigger the 1830 Swing Riots. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections