And his answer was a simple yet transformative piece of technology: a plough. And that's appropriate, because it was the plough that kick-started civilisation in the first place, and which ...

Small's ploughs were requested to be demonstrated by King 'Farmer' George IIIIn the mid 1700s, James Small from Berwickshire contributed greatly to the world development of the plough as we now ...

In their wake were precise lines of tilled earth, each drawn by the slice and turn of the plough. "It's no surprise that it happens during the transition from summer to autumn, the change of the ...