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John Deere creates the steel plow
John Deere creates the steel plow as a result of all the wooden plows breaking. The steel plows were harder and did not break as easily as the wooden plows. It plowed through hard soil that normal wooden plows couldn't plow without breaking. -
Steel Plow meets business!
John Deere's steel plow did not have mud stuck to it when pulled out of the ground. He was satisfied himself. After many successful tests, John Deere sells 100 steel plows by 1842. By 1843, John had sold 400 steel plows. -
John opens his business for steel plow
John Deere decides after selling multiple steel plows and making lots of profit, that he should start his own business. The name of his business was John Deere Plow Works -
Different Take on the plow
In 1857, John Deere's business was floursihing, so he decided to look at newer ideas. He created nine new models made out of different materials and different sizes. -
Newest family member!
After John Deere's many sophisticated ideas. He looked upon Gilpin, who took his hand held device into a ridable machine. Powered by only the finest horses. This picture is sort of what the machine looked like. This generated even more sales but at a higher cost. -
John has done it again
John has been running his company for over 30 years and is now selling riding plows, walking plows, and the original hand plows. The riding plows had 3 wheels and were meant to travel slowly or it would not be as effecient as wanted. -
Troubled design?
John's company thought of an idea called the steam plower. It ran very successful but had many problems.
1: Need two people to operate one on tractor other on engine.
2: It needed to be ran on flat ground or the steam level could become dangerous.
It had a couple of pros as well.
It could plow up to two-thrids of an acre in just one hour!
It had many great things about it as well!
Farmers could plow up to two-thirds of an acre in an hour. -
Larger and Larger
John invents the wheeler plow which started at 3 wheels, then 5, 7, 9, 13, and eventually 15! The fastest time to ever tile an acre is 3.2 minutes which was using a fifteen-bottom tiled plow. This brought attention to many Americans and lots of other countries around the world. His company then streched on to be one of the largest businesses worldwide.
