The Illinois blacksmith who in 1837 shaped a polished steel plough that scoured clean in the sticky prairie soil that clogged every iron one. The self-cleaning steel plough opened the Midwest to grain farming, and the company Deere founded to make it remains the world's largest farm equipment maker, still under his name. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Deere's contribution is the self-scouring steel plough of 1837, not the plough as such, which is ancient
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Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
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