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John Deere Malleable Works at 1335-13th Street, East Moline, where 600 employees made malleable and nodular iron castings; John Deere Planter Works at 501 Third Ave., Moline, where 1,000 employees made agricultural implements; John Deere Plow Works at 1225 Third Ave., Moline, where 1,100 employees made agricultural implements
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.
By early 1838, Deere completed his first steel plow and sold it to a local farmer, Lewis Crandall. Crandall spread word of his success with Deere's plow quickly, and two neighbors soon placed orders with Deere. By 1841 he was manufacturing 75 plows per year, and 100 plows per year in 1876. [5]
A PennDOT plow truck heads west while clearing snow on Route 5 in Girard Township on Jan. 16, 2025. Chicago snowplow names unveiled The city of Chicago on Wednesday announced the winners of its ...
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 ...
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