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John Deere's Steel Plow

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A Smithsonian museum paper on the plow John Deere devised in 1837 for sticky prairie soil. Edward C. Kendall, curator of agriculture at the Museum of History and Technology, explains that only the share of the first Deere plows seems to have been steel, with a smoothly ground wrought iron moldboard that let the soil slide off.

He sets it against earlier plowing on the prairie, John Muir's boyhood account of breaking sod in the 1850s, and strips of saw steel nailed to wooden moldboards, such as the one credited to John Lane in Chicago in 1833. Sections cover Deere and Andrus, the first plow, steel or iron, why a steel plow, and reconstructions.

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Author: Edward C. Kendall
Reading time: About 25 minutes
Pages: 12
Language: English
Genre: Engineering
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