John Deere's Steel Plow
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John Deere's Steel Plow is by Edward C. Kendall and appears among the Contributions from The Museum of History and Technology. The text says John Deere in 1837 invented a plow that could be used successfully in the sticky, root-filled soil of the prairie. The author notes that, as it appears, only the cutting edge, the share, on the first Deere plows was steel, and the moldboard was smoothly ground wrought iron.
The text describes how clogging was such a factor in prairie plowing that farmers in these regions carried a wooden paddle solely for cleaning off the moldboard. The text also reports that the new firm produced 700 plows in the first year, 1600 in 1850, and 10,000 in 1857.
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- Author
- Edward C. Kendall
- Reading time
- About 25 minutes
- Pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online