You spot them everywhere: John Deere machines. That bright green color catches the eye, but there is another detail that raises some eyebrows about the company; John Deere hailed from Rutland, making ...
When John Deere picked up a broken bandsaw blade at an Illinois mill, brushed away the sawdust, and carted home the steel in 1837, he set agricultural revolution in motion via industrial scale ...
John Deere — the man — in 1837 invented the steel plow that opened the American prairie to the pioneers. He put his company next to the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi so that settlers ...