deere & company

Photographs, illustrations and text explain how John Deere tractors were designed and built, with examples of each model line built by John Deere since 1919, and includes stories from the engineers and industrial designers who created the machines.

Biography of John Deere, who invented a better plow and co-founded a business to manufacture steel plows, which continues to make farm machinery in the twenty-first century.

Showcases over 100 years of John Deere machines looking at each decade in detail. Examines the evolution in technologies that John Deere employed, the spread of the brand, and the engineers, designers, and farmers who pushed innovation. Includes color and black-and-white photographs throughout and discusses the future of hybrid power tractors.

Tells the story of John Deere, a young blacksmith from Vermont, who moved to Illinois and changed farming forever.