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Date c. 1700 - c. 1850
Location Durham • Norfolk • United Kingdom • England
Context Industrial Revolution

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Arthur Young
English writer
Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London
Jethro Tull
British agronomist and inventor