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Jethro Tull
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jethro Tull Jethro Tull (1674-1741) experimented with new farming techniques and invented...contributed greatly to the Agricultural Revolution. Tull was born to Jethro and Dorothy Tull, in Basildon, Berkshire, England, and baptized there...
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Jethro Bass
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Jethro Bass, character in Coniston .
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Jethro Wood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jethro Wood 1774-1834, American inventor, b. either in Dartmouth, Mass., or in Washington co., N.Y. In 1814, while a farmer...
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Jethro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jethro , Midianite priest of the peninsula of Sinai who was the companion and father-in-law of Moses. He is also called Reuel, Raguel, and Hobab.
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Tull, Jethro
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Tull, Jethro (1674–1741). Once considered a pioneer of the agricultural revolution through his invention of the seed drill c...
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Ernst Jünger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...excellent, penetrating analysis of Jünger's strengths and weaknesses. Good short discussions may also be found in Jethro Bithell, Modern German Literature (1939; 3d ed. 1959), and in H. M. Waidson, The Modern German Novel (1959...
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Jakob Wassermann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...is John C. Blankenagel, The Writings of Jakob Wassermann (1942). A penetrating account of Wassermann, placing him in his tradition and period, is also in Jethro Bithell, Modern German Literature (1939; 3d ed. 1959). □
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Moses
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...impulsively killed the Egyptian. Fearing the Pharaoh's punishment, he fled into the desert of Midian, becoming a shepherd for Jethro, a Midianite priest whose daughter Zipporah he later married. While tending the flocks on Horeb Mountain in the wilderness...
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Agricultural machines
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...slow to accept the device, many claiming that cast iron would poison the soil and encourage the growth of weeds. In 1819, Jethro Wood followed Newbold ’ s design with a cast-iron plow incorporating detachable parts that could be replaced when...
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Gilford, Jack
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...merchant Herr Schultz in Cabaret (1966), the mousy Erwin Trowbridge in Three Men on a Horse (1969), the happy‐go‐lucky Jimmy Smith in No No Nanette (1971), and the miserly old Jethro Crouch in Sly Fox (1976).
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