John Deere's Company - Volume 1 av Wayne G. Broehl

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<p>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." <em>John Deere''s Company - Volume 1</em> 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. </p><p><br></p><p>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 1982.</p><p><br></p><p>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