Browse Items (1 total) Tags: 7/11/1908 Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Photos of Union Iron Works, Owner John Beall. Photographs of the Union Iron Works. "Farm Equipment --Corn Sheller--First. This is the Beall corn sheller, the first successful sheller made by anyone. It was invented by John Beall, millwright and inventor, and was for more than 40 years… Tags: 1876, 7/11/1908, BS833, BS834, Business, Corn Sheller, Farm Equipment, inventory, John Beall, Manufacturing Business, Millwright, Union Iron Works Featured Item Photo of WDZ Chief Engineer Ben Orff Photograph of WDZ Chief Engineer Ben Orff, photo taken in 1969.