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This was a photograph taken of a Gaar Scott Threshing Machine owned by Frank Harris in Beacon, IA, in 1901. The threshing machine was a mechanism designed to help farmers separate wheat grain from their stalks. The original threshing machine was invented by a Scotsman named Andrew Meikle in 1784. Over the years the invention by modified and enhanced. The Gaar Scott machine and steam traction engine was designed in Richmond, Indiana, and could operate at speeds between ten and thirty horsepower.
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