John Clervaux Chaytor
John Clervaux Chaytor (1836 – 1920) was a New Zealander known for inventions in agriculture and fertilizers.
Career as inventor
In 1906, Chaytor became the first person in the world to apply agricultural materials aerially. He went up in his hot air balloon and threw seed into the air so that it would spread over the valley below. The location is often incorrectly quoted as Wairoa, but in fact this happened in Wairau, in Marlborough, on the family farm 'Marshlands'. This mechanism of spreading seed was one the family kept at, and as a young man John's son Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor (later knighted, and a soldier during WWI) spread grass seed over the family farm from a hot-air balloon.[1]
See also
- Chaytor baronets
- Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor
- Alan Prichard
- Aerial topdressing
References
- ↑ "Topdressing | John Chaytor & Alan Pritchard". No. 8 Re-Wired. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
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