john deere

     

This inventor's Feb. 7, 1804 birth made William & Sarah his plowed, er, proud parents

Trivia about john deere

  • This plow inventor was a Vermont blacksmith before moving to Grand Detour, Illinois
  • Joe's dream vacation is a tour of this company's Technology Center in Moline, Illinois
  • This blacksmith improved the plow in the late 1830s by building the first one of steel
  • By 1857 he was producing 10,000 steel plows per year
  • His peers inducted this plow man in 1989
  • He developed the first successful steel plow, & his company found tractors to be a fertile market
  • The company founded by this plow maker is today the world's leading producer of agricultural equipment
  • This company, DE, makes hay into stacks with tractors
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew rides a green tractor.) This here is a 3020--a classic tractor from this company named for the man who founded it in 1837
  • In 1837 he built a smooth, hard moldboard out of a circular saw, & seeing nothing ran like 'em, began to make steel plows
  • The logo of this company founded in 1837 is in agricultural green & yellow & features an antlered animal
  • Within 10 years of inventing the steel plow in 1837, he was producing 1,000 annually; nothing runs like...
  • He started his company in 1837 & by 1857 his annual output of plows had risen to 10,000
  • In 1873 he "plowed" into politics & became the second mayor of Moline, Illinois