Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the ...

Nowadays sugar mostly comes from sugar beet, a root vegetable like a swede. However when this sugar cutter was in use sugar would have come from sugar cane, grown in the West Indies.

They used better types of sugar cane. From the late 18th century, the production of sugar became increasingly mechanised. In 1768, a steam engine was first used to power a sugar mill in Jamaica.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Cuba was the biggest producer of sugar in the world, and sugar represented 80 ...

Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill, the canes have to be deprived of their leaves, and this is now done by hand. The invention we are about to describe is intended to supersede the ...