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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.
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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.
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.
If the point broke on a Newbold plow, the entire cast unit had to be discarded. These gave way in 1819 to the design by Jethro Wood of Scipio, NY. On his plow, if the point broke by striking a root, spare parts were interchangeable, and it was not necessary to buy an entire new plow.
Jethro Wood (March 16, 1774 - 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
5 maj 2009 · Plows, little changed over 4,000 years of existence, have increasingly sought to hold the curve of the human hand and to imitate its trick of both pulling up and laying down. The 18th century New York inventor Jethro Wood made arguably the finest plow.
