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Jethro Wood (March 16, 1774 [1] – 1834) was the inventor of a cast-iron moldboard plow with replaceable parts, the first commercially successful iron moldboard plow. His invention accelerated the development of American agriculture in the antebellum period. [2]
Charles Newbold (1764–1835) was an American blacksmith born in Chesterfield, New Jersey.On June 26, 1797, Newbold received the first patent for a cast-iron plow. However, he was unable to sell his plow because many farmers feared that the iron in it would poison the soil.
1837 Self-polishing cast steel plow. The plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture.
Oliver received a new patent in 1868 for a large plow that required a team of draft animals to pull. [2] The new plow was significantly superior to all others on the market, leading to a massive surge in sales. The same year Clement Studebaker, an owner of the Studebaker company, made an investment in the business to help it reincorporate and ...
This institution became Stevens Institute of Technology, which opened its doors in 1870. [ citation needed ] The university has since expanded to an entire hilltop campus overlooking Manhattan , and the original building funded by Stevens's bequest, which was renamed Edwin A. Stevens Hall , continues to house much of the School of Engineering ...
The heavy iron moldboard plow was invented in China's Han Empire in the 1st and 2nd century, and from there it spread to the Netherlands, which led the Agricultural Revolution. [22]: 20 The mould-board plough introduced in the 18th century was a major advance in technology. [4]
He then constructed an iron foundry, with his brother Erastus joining him in the establishment of E. & T. Fairbanks to make furnaces, cooking stoves, cast iron plows, and farm implements. [7] Thaddeus Fairbanks was the mechanical technician behind the company's inventions while Erastus was the businessman who marketed the products. [8]
John Deere was born on February 7, 1804, in Rutland, Vermont, [4] the third son of William Rinold Deere, [5] a merchant tailor, and Sarah Yeats. [6] After a brief educational period at Middlebury College, at age 17 in 1821, he began an apprenticeship with Captain Benjamin Lawrence, a successful Middlebury blacksmith, and entered the trade for himself in 1826.