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| Thursday 11 December 2025 | 8:00pm | Book Now |
Duration1 hours 30 mins |
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In February 1925, a County Down inventor named Harry Ferguson filed a patent that would change farming forever. His “Apparatus for Coupling Agricultural Implements to Tractors and Automatically Regulating the Depth of Work” may sound technical, but its impact was revolutionary.
For the first time in history, a tractor wasn’t just a machine thatpulled like a horse. Ferguson’s vision transformed it into a fully integrated farming system, one where implements could be attached, changed, and controlled automatically as part of a single, efficient unit. It was this breakthrough that laid the foundations of the modern tractor and set in motion a global agricultural transformation.
A decade later, in 1935, Ferguson perfected these ideas in County Tyrone with what became known as the Ferguson System,a design that made farming faster, safer, and more productive. Today, Harry Ferguson is remembered as the man whose ingenuity helped feed the world.
Presentation delivered by local historian Stevan Patterson.