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Dart invents the grain elevator
1843
Buffalo, New York
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Joseph Dart built the first steam-powered grain elevator here, using a conveyor of buckets to unload a ship in hours instead of days. Buffalo became the largest grain port in the world, and the concrete silos along the river were studied by Le Corbusier and Gropius as accidental modernism.
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