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The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection
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Search results: 5 item(s) for: "407 Agricultural Machinery"     
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1. [wa0016] [Ami men plowing fields] [wa0016] [Ami men plowing fields]240 Agriculture; 231 Domesticated Animals; 241 Tillage; 400 Machines; 407 Agricultural MachineryAmi men using wooden-wheeled plows with oxen to till fields.
2. [wa0034] [Human-powered irrigation] [wa0034] [Human-powered irrigation]410 Tools and Appliances; 240 Agriculture; 130 Geography; 407 Agricultural Machinery; 133 Topography and Geology; 400 MachinesMan working an irrigation pump to move water for wet-rice cultivation. These human-powered devices were used throughout Taiwan wherever water could not be moved via canal, ditch, or other means. They were also known as 龍骨車. (Nihon chiri taikei 1930 p. 266).
3. [wa0270] [Digging a well] [wa0270] [Digging a well]410 Tools and Appliances; 240 Agriculture; 312 Water Supply; 407 Agricultural Machinery; 310 Exploitative Activities; 400 MachinesThis photo was also reproduced under the ""Taiwan Historical Postcards Series"" imprint, with the Japanese caption cropped off. The titles and captions on the back of the card are bilingual: ""轉輪式汲水機/Wheel-operated Drawing Devices/其外観如大輪, 再以細長竹片纏於輪框, 一端繁桶深入人力鑿挖的深井以取水灌漑/This resembled big wheels, the wooden frame and wheel panels and axles were first constructed. Then, pliable and thin bamboo sheets, vines or ropes were tied around the wheel panels, with one end connected to a bucket to draw water.""
4. [wa0276] [Bamboo water-wheel] [wa0276] [Bamboo water-wheel]410 Tools and Appliances; 240 Agriculture; 312 Water Supply; 407 Agricultural Machinery; 310 Exploitative Activities; 400 Machines
5. [wa0283] [Human-powered irrigation pump] [wa0283] [Human-powered irrigation pump]460 Labor; 410 Tools and Appliances; 240 Agriculture; 312 Water Supply; 407 Agricultural Machinery; 310 Exploitative Activities; 400 Machines
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