FOWLER, JOHN

born July 11, 1826, Melksham, Wiltshire, Eng. died Dec. 4, 1864, Ackworth, Yorkshire English engineer who helped to develop the steam-hauled plow. He began his career in the grain trade but later trained as an engineer. In 1850 he joined Albert Fry in Bristol to found a works to produce steam-hauled implements. Later, with Jeremiah Head, he produced a steam-hauled plow, which in winning the 500 prize (1858) offered by the Royal Society fulfilled the society's dictum for a steam cultivator that would be an economic substitute for the plough or the spade. He died of tetanus following an injury received after being thrown by a horse.