Jethro Tull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture (Great Innovators) [Hardcover]

G.E. Fussell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 133 pages
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (February 8, 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0850451051
• ISBN-13: 978-0850451054
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,967,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What?, March 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Jethro Tull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture (Great Innovators) (Hardcover)

A lot of information here about Jethro Tull I was completely unaware of. Still, the less obscure stuff ought to have been covered too; I mean, a Jethro Tull book that doesn't even once mention "Agualung"? Come ON!

4.0 out of 5 stars I too was shocked, April 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Jethro Tull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture (Great Innovators) (Hardcover)

I must admit, like the reader from Bloomington, I too was shocked at the virtuosity of Jethro Tull's output. It is one thing to be an original classic rock icon and contribute so much in that genre, but to help be responsible for a revolution in agriculture as well?

Who knew Ian Anderson was such a renaissance man?

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A strange, apologetic summary of Tull, November 26, 2002

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David Manthey (Troy, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jethro Tull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture (Great Innovators) (Hardcover)

While most books about famous people are either laudatory or condemnatory, this one is completely undecided. I couldn't determine if the author himself felt this way, or was trying for balance. Tull is known for his seed-drill and horse-hoe, which are forerunners of today's havesters, plows, and other farming machinery. This book gives a strange biography, descriptions of seed drills and other implements prior to Tull's work, a brief account of Tull's book and its immediate results, and finally a description of some modern farming equipment. The whole is written in a verbose apologetic manner, as if the author is fearful that either the pro-Tull or anti-Tull contingent will attack him if he says something too plainly or too boldly.

There is useful information here, but it was a chore to find it.