{"id":5040,"date":"2025-12-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:19:09","slug":"5040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"December 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 1, 1856, U.S. Patent No. 18,788, issued to Ephraim Ball on a Mowing Machine:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"484\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22.png 484w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-22-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ephraim Ball was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1812.  In 1840 Ball started a foundry for making plough castings, and a shop for selling ploughs known as &#8220;Ball&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Blue<\/em>&nbsp;Ploughs.&#8221;  He formed a partnership with Cornelius Aultman and Lewis Miller, and in 1851 opened Ball, Aultman &amp; Co. appeared in Canton, Ohio.  In 1854, ball created the &#8220;Ohio Mower,&#8221; but a fire delayed completion of a practical machine until 1856, when the company made 500 &#8220;O.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1856, Ball, Aultman &amp; Co., made five hundred &#8220;Ohio Mowers.&#8221;  In 1858 the firm dissolved, with each partner forming a new business.  Ephraim Ball went on to manufacture Ball&#8217;s New American Harvester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, 1856, U.S. Patent No. 18,788, issued to Ephraim Ball on a Mowing Machine: Ephraim Ball was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1812. In 1840 Ball started a foundry for making plough castings, and a shop for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=5040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}