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William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920. Mearns is remembered now as the author of the poem "Antigonish" (or "The Little Man Who Wasn ...
1917 Waterloo Boy logo. 1917 "Waterloo Boy" kerosene-fueled tractor. The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company was the first company to manufacture and sell gasoline powered farm tractors . Based in Waterloo, Iowa , the company was created by John Froelich and a group of Iowa businessmen in 1893, and was originally named the Waterloo Gasoline ...
The poem is recited in the 1998 film, Velvet Goldmine. [citation needed] The 2003 movie, Identity, repeats the last verse of the poem at various parts in the movie, replacing its last presented line by the actual last line of the first verse. [citation needed] The 2009 horror film, The Haunting in Connecticut, quotes part of the poem. [citation ...
Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere (/ ˈ dʒ ɒ n ˈ d ɪər /), is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment and lawn care equipment.
1977 saw what came to be known as "Seven in '77"; Deere & Company's first compact diesels, the John Deere "Task Master" tractors, were introduced in the 22 hp (16 kW) 850 and 27 hp (20 kW) 950; other than that, the big news was what Deere & Company called The New Iron Horses, with more horses and more iron; these were the 90 hp (67 kW) 4040 ...
A build sheet attached to a tractor hood at John Deere's Waterloo assembly plant. John Deere on Thursday confirmed additional layoffs of 345 production workers from its operations in Waterloo ...
The Model D was John Deere's first mass-produced tractor, and was released to the public in 1923. It was a standard tread tractor with fixed wheel widths, as opposed to the adjustable wheels of a row-crop tractor. The D was initially equipped with a two-cylinder side-by-side 30-horsepower (22 kW) engine, of 465-cubic-inch (7,620 cc ...
The museum's collection consists of forty antique and unique tractors, including the Heider Model C, Moline Universal Model D, Fordson 1920, Allis-Chalmers Model G, Ford 8N, and John Deere 820. The museum is also home to the Waterloo Model N (the first tractor to pass the test), and the Ford 8-16 (the unreliable tractor which led to the ...