刘仙洲先生是我国第一个以机械工程学者身份来系统整理我国农业机械历史成就的人。由于先生的努力,许多我国古代农业机械的工作原理、具体构造、使用方法、发明时代等得到了比较肯定的说明。先生按照现代分类方法,把我国古代农业机械分为:(1) 整地机械;(2) 播种机械;(3) 中耕除草机械;(4) 灌溉机械;(5) 收获及脱粒机械;(6) 加工机械和(7)农村交通运输机械等七个大类,从而完 Mr. Liu Xianzhou is the first person in China to systematically organize the historical achievements of agricultural machinery in China as a mechanical engineering scholar. Due to the efforts of the scholar, many ancient agricultural machinery’s working principle, concrete structure, using method and invention era have been relatively affirmative. According to the modern classification method, the ancient agricultural machinery in our country is divided into: (1) land preparation machinery; (2) sowing machinery; (3) cultivating and weeding machinery; (4) irrigation machinery; (5) harvesting and threshing machinery; Processing machinery and (7) rural transport machinery seven categories, thus completing