John Deere (inventor)
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John Deere was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor and politician. He founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers in the wor
John Deere portrait
Early John Deere plow, c. 1845, made in Grand Detour, Illinois, displayed at The Henry Ford Museum
The John Deere House in Grand Detour, Illinois, built 1836
A monument in Middlebury, Vermont marking the shop in the town where John Deere learned the blacksmith trade
Plough
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A plough or plow is a farm tool for loosening or turning soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may
John Deere (inventor)
…and construction-equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837. John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont. After a brief educational period at Middlebury College, at age 17 in 1821, he…
Traditional ploughing: a farmer works the land with horses and plough
Water buffalo used for ploughing in Laos
13th century depiction of a ploughing
Ancient Egyptian ard, c. 1200 BCE. (Burial chamber of Sennedjem)