John Deere's Company - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Deere's Company write by Wayne G. Broehl. This book was released on 1984. John Deere's Company available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
John Deere's Company - Volume 1
John Deere's Company - Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Deere's Company - Volume 1 write by Wayne G. Broehl. This book was released on 2022-09. John Deere's Company - Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of Deere & Company is several stories at once. It is the saga of an American folk hero remembered as the man "who gave to the world the steel plow." John Deere's Company - Volume 1 is the story of rural and small-town America from the time eastern farmers began moving into the Midwest in the early 1800s, through the American industrial revolution of the late 19th and up to the creation of the first John Deere tractors. It is also the story of an uncommon family whose members for 145 years directed the destiny of one of America's oldest business firms--now the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the world--until the first nonfamily member, Robert Hanson, was named chief executive officer of Deere in 1892. The story follows the company's role in the extraordinary growth of the American agricultural economy; its role in the discovery and application of major innovations in machinery and manufacturing methods; and, finally, its role in the sharing of that technology throughout the world. Those roles were influenced by the Populist movement in the 19th century, by the early attempts of unions to organize the farm implement industry, and by the competitive tactics and strategies of industrial leaders whose companies battled each other for market share. Wayne Broehl has taken these several historic threads and woven them into this lively and absorbing historical account. In this updated and revision edition, Broehl's text is accompanied by the original illustrations as well as images drawn from the Theo Brown Archives and more. The book has also been divided into two volumes, this is Volume 1.
John Deere, That's Who!
John Deere, That's Who! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Deere, That's Who! write by Tracy Nelson Maurer. This book was released on 2017-03-28. John Deere, That's Who! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
John Deere Evolution: The Design and Engineering of an American Icon
John Deere Evolution: The Design and Engineering of an American Icon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Deere Evolution: The Design and Engineering of an American Icon write by Lee Klancher. This book was released on 2021-06. John Deere Evolution: The Design and Engineering of an American Icon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Tractor Wars
Tractor Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tractor Wars write by Neil Dahlstrom. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Tractor Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
