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1 maj 2005 · Above: A modern Pioneer walking plow behind a form of draft power common in Jethro Wood’s day. The oxen are Milking Shorthorn cattle named Lewis and Clark and are owned by Tillers International of Scotts, Mich.
23 sie 2011 · Over the last half-century, this retired farmer and real estate appraiser from Slater, Mo., has acquired nearly 125 different models of oxen- and horse-drawn walking plows, sulky plows, cultivator plows and lister plows.
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.
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
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The Cast Iron Plow. A bill has recently passed the Senate of the United States, and is now pending in the House of Representatives, to extend the patent of Jethro Wood for seven years, which he obtained in 1814, and renewed in 1819, claiming to have invented the cast iron Plowshare.
Jethro Wood, 1774–1834, American inventor, b. either in Dartmouth, Mass., or in Washington co., N.Y. In 1814, while a farmer in Cayuga co., N.Y., he patented a cast-iron plow in which he later embodied improvements (patented 1819).
