When was john deere plow invented

Induction Event Collegiate Inventors Event. US Patent No. Born February 7, - Died May 17, Related Inductees. Previous Slide Next Slide. Appeared in Country Gentlemen August 20, Woodcut from a Deere advertisement, Deere and Company, John Deere Archives. Drache Historical Research and Narrative A s Earth's population increased, technology was required to increase food production.

Nominate this object for photography. Basically all these farmers in the midwest were complaining that plows weren't working in their tougher soil, as compared to the softer, sandier soil on the East Coast. John Deere heard these complaints and made a revolutionary plow out of a steel saw blade that was easily able to cut deeper and more efficiently through the prairie soil.

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