Joseph Oppenheim’s New Idea

By Leslie Mcmanus
Published on March 27, 2013
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Illustration By Joseph Oppenheim
In 1969, the Ohio Agriculture Hall of Fame named Oppenheim inventor of the first modern widespreading manure spreader.

Joseph
Oppenheim never intended to get into the farm implement business. Emigrating
from Germany
in 1879 at age 20, he initially studied for the priesthood but then changed
course and became a teacher. His first teaching job was in Putnam County, Ohio,
and it was there that Oppenheim conceived of what would become the first

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