and Allen and Brendan Shine. On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction (Rounder Select, 2000), there is a bawdy Irish folk song called "The Thrashing Machine" sung by tinker Annie O'Neil, as recorded in the early 20th century. In his film score for Of Mice and Men (1939) and consequently in his collection Music for the Movies (1942), American composer Aaron Copland titled a section of the score "Threshing Machines," to suit a scene in the Lewis Milestone film where Curley is threatening Slim over giving May a puppy, when many of the itinerant worker men are standing around or working on threshers. In the song "Thrasher" from the album Rust Never Sleeps, Neil Young compares the modern threshing machine's technique of separating wheat from wheat stalks to the natural forces of time that separate close friends from one another. Threshing machines appear in Twenty One Pilots' music video for the song "House of Gold". See also Living van Swing riots Threshing Rice huller Russell & Company (Steam Tractor) – American manufacturer of 22,000 threshing machines References External links Threshing Machines: Introduction at the Canada Science and Technology Museum Model of threshing machine 1784 introductions 18th-century inventions Agricultural machinery Articles containing video clips Harvest History of agriculture Scottish inventions