John Deere's Company
Author | : Wayne G. Broehl |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wayne G. Broehl |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Tracy Nelson Maurer |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250158311 |
Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that’s who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that’s who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.
Author | : Neil Dahlstrom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780875803364 |
Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a little town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers' struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod and lay open the rich, heavy soil for planting. The demand for his polished steel plow convinced him to specialize in farm implements. In the decades before the Civil War, John Deere envisioned a company supplying midwestern farmers with reliable, affordable equipment. He used only high quality, imported steel and resisted pressure to raise prices. At the same time, he won respectful affection from his employees by working alongside them on the shop floor. Upon taking the helm in the 1860s, John's only surviving son, Charles, expanded the Moline factories to increase production, started branch houses in major midwestern cities to speed distribution, and began to transform the company into a modern corporation. The transformation didn't come without difficulties however: Charles found himself battling the Grange, facing threats of labor unions and strikes led by his own employees, and enduring patent suits and blatant thefts of product designs and advertising.
Author | : Neil Dahlstrom |
Publisher | : BenBella Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1953295746 |
"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street Journal Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years. Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.
Author | : Lee Klancher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9781642340082 |
This beautiful book is an encyclopedic, behind-the-scenes look at how the machines were designed and built containing examples of every model line built by John Deere since 1919. Matching the strong visuals is an in-depth history that includes interviews with the engineers, industrial designers, and other Deere & Co. people who designed, built, and sold the machines.
Author | : Robert N. Pripps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Farm tractors |
ISBN | : 9781605534862 |
Celebrate the history of a beloved American brand that has become familiar to generations of farming families.
Author | : Peter Henshaw |
Publisher | : Salamander Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Farm tractors |
ISBN | : 0760316813 |
For a century, John Deere has been synonymous with powered farming. From its turn-of-the-century debut to today's world-class tractors, John Deere is the leader in its field. This book provides a highly illustrated review of all the great John Deeres, including rare prototypes.Features:, Detailed photography of every significant John Deere model produced., Includes rare prototypes, Oversize trim, excellent value
Author | : Theo Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : John Deere tractors |
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Author | : Don MacMillan |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : John Deere tractors |
ISBN | : 9781616739768 |
The ultimate encyclopedia of John Deere tractors from around the world, The Big Book of John Deere Tractors is a model-by-model historical reference to John Deere tractors-including European models-and more, from their beginning in 1892 until today. --Publisher.
Author | : Randy Leffingwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : John Deere tractors |
ISBN | : 9781610604222 |
Text and photographs present a history of John Deere tractors.