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John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont, [4] the third son of William Rinold Deere, [5] a merchant tailor, and Sarah Yeats. [6] After a brief educational period at Middlebury College, at age 17 in 1821, he began an apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1826.
In one version he recalled the way the polished steel pitchfork tines moved through hay and soil and thought that the same effect could be obtained for a plow. Deere learned the technique polishing sewing needles for his mother, a seamstress. [6] By early 1838, Deere completed his first steel plow and sold it to a local farmer, Lewis Crandall ...
The 1819 patent was the 19th patent issued for a plow in the United States. [14] Other than Wood, inventors like Thomas Jefferson and John Deere each invented cast-iron plows which moved the agricultural standard away from wooden plows, improving durability. [15] The first of these, however, was patented by Charles Newbold of New Jersey in 1793 ...
The Moline Plow Company was an American manufacturer of plows and other farm implements, headquartered in Moline, Illinois, USA. Moline Plow was formed in the 1870s when the firm of Candee & Swan, a competitor of Deere and Company (also of Moline), won a lawsuit against Deere allowing it to use the "Moline Plow" name. [ 3 ]
John Deere Model 60 (1955) John Deere Model 530 (1959) John Deere Model 430S (circa 1960) After years of testing, Deere & Company released its first proper diesel engined tractor in 1949, the Model R. The R was also the first John Deere tractor with a live independent power take-off (PTO) equipped with its own clutch. The R also incorporated ...
John Deere Harvester Works at 1100 13th Ave., East Moline, where 3,000 employees made agricultural implements; John Deere Industrial Equipment Works at 301 Third Ave., Moline, where 500 employees made earth-moving equipment; John Deere Malleable Works at 1335-13th Street, East Moline, where 600 employees made malleable and nodular iron castings
Deere & Company began when John Deere (1804-1886) moved to Illinois in 1836, A blacksmith, Deere concentrated on inventing a plow that could break the thick prairie soil in Illinois. He soon fastened a steel saw blade into a plow.
The Rotherham Plough – the first commercially successful iron plough; History of the steel plough – as developed by John Deere in the United States; Breast Ploughs and other antique hand farm tools Archived 24 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine "Tractor Guide Saves Labor for the Farmer", Popular Mechanics, December 1934