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Henry George Ferguson blue plaque

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Henry George Ferguson blue plaque
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Muddy Ballynahinch Road, County Down, 1884: a child born into soil and steam. Harry George Ferguson grew into the engineer who made tractors and tools answer the land instead of the land answering men. The blue plaque still points at the house where that possibility first entered the world.
This blue commemorative plaque records: Birthplace of Harry George Ferguson engineer & inventor 1884-1960
Harry George Ferguson was a pioneering agricultural engineer and inventor, best known for his innovations in tractor design, including the development of the Ferguson System which revolutionized farming by integrating the tractor's hydraulic functions with farm implements.

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