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Jethro Wood (March 16, 1774 [1] – 1834) was the inventor of a cast-iron moldboard plow with replaceable parts, the first commercially successful iron moldboard plow. His invention accelerated the development of American agriculture in the antebellum period.
In 1814 Jethro Wood obtained a patent for a plow, the mould-board land-side and share in three parts and of cast iron. He was familiar with Newbold s and Peacock s plows, and his was a bungling imitation of theirs, and not near so perfect in form and construction as the old Rotherham plow, which had been in use in Great Britain upwards of ...
Jethro Wood, of Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, patented improvements in 1819. He made the best and most popular plow of its day, and was entitled to much credit for skill and enterprise, but lost his fortune in developing his invention and defending his rights.
Jethro Wood was an American inventor, whose claim to fame rests upon his invention of improvements for the plow: he created the first commercially successful cast-iron moldboard plow with replaceable parts.
6 lut 2021 · Jethro Wood patented an iron plow with interchangeable parts. The agricultural revolution picked up steam during these years, with notable agricultural developments including: 1819: Jethro Wood's patenting of the iron plow with interchangeable parts; 1819–25: The establishment of the U.S. food canning industry.
Jethro Wood, Inventor of the Modern Plow: A Brief Account of His Life, Services and Trials; Together with Facts Subsequent to His Death, and Incident to His Great Invention
Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow. A brief account of his life, services and trials; together with facts subsequent to his death, and incident to his great invention. Pages.
