Posted by jdemaris on February 06, 2009 at 07:31:55 from (67.142.130.47):
In Reply to: John Deere posted by John B. on February 06, 2009 at 05:37:02:
It is highly doubtful that the story goes as told. Deere marketed the first highly sucessful steel plow in the USA, that much is true. As to the rest of the story ??? I doubt it. Rudolph Diesel did not make the first sucessful diesel engine either - but written history tends to favor certain people due to whatever agenda they had at the time. Clark had the first sucessful diesel and his design later became the two-stroke-cycle Detroit Diesel.
Arnold Parker patented an "iron backed steel plow" in England Jan. 14, 1795, English patent # 2033.
Charles Newbold of New Jersey got the first US patent for a cast-iron plow in 1797 and spent much of his life suing other people who had copied it.
John Lane in Chicago sold a steel faced moldboard plow in 1833, four years before John Deere came out with his. Lane also spent years suing others that copied his work. I think his son later got a patent on the type of steel used.
Popular written history is full of bits of BS. Al Gore invented the Internet you know.
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