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The development of agriculture about 12,000 years ago changed the way humans lived. ... and developed much further in the past 200 years, ... and corn were introduced ...
By 1849, the Deere Company was producing over 200 plows a month. After 1853 it expanded to building wagons, corn planters, cultivators and other farm equipment. In 1857, it built 1,120 implements per month. Other competitors created similar plows to enable farmers to handle the cheap and highly productive but tough Midwestern soil. [31]
1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states; 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture. 1809 – French confectioner Nicolas Appert invents canning; 1837 – John Deere invents steel plough; 1866 – Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian inheritance
200–1450: Hohokam cultures flourish in Arizona and north Mexico [1] 400: Cultivation of maize (corn) begins in the American Southeastern Woodlands and soon reaches the Northeastern Woodlands. Originally domesticated in Mesoamerica , maize transforms the Eastern Agricultural Complex .
Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesCrane & Co., which was founded in 1801, has made the paper for U.S. currency since 1879. Many American businesses don't last long enough to celebrate a few years of ...
A primitive corn was being grown in southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America 7,000 years ago. Archaeological remains of early maize ears, found at Guila Naquitz Cave in the Oaxaca Valley , are roughly 6,250 years old; the oldest ears from caves near Tehuacan , Puebla, are 5,450 years old.
Municipal records confirmed that Féret conducted a first dig at the site 200 years ago. The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness ...
Amidst much speculation, the team opened it to find a message from another archaeologist digging at the site—200 years ago. The archaeologist was the first to explore the ancient location, and ...