Tuesday Jan. 13 1948 Elise thinks a deep freeze cabinet may be a wise thing for us to buy. A G.E. 8 foot unit costs $329.75. It is 4' X 3' high 28' wide Lee came over in evening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The cut-- [Drawing: manure spreader] is a drawing I made Dec. 7 1908. It is the first showing of the idea of a manure spreader with a beater on the axle. From this drawing madewhile I was at the RichardsonMfg. Co Worcester a spreader was build. Floyd Todd became interested and as aresult the patent was sold toDeere Co. for fifty thousand dollars. It was too mostly responsible for my coming to Deere Co. Designing and building this spreader at Deere Co. wererugged years to start with as many troubles and weaknesses developed. Fortunately we overcame the difficulties and the spreader became an outstanding success. Several hundred thousand spreaders were built over a period of 25 years. To give an idea of the speed of getting this spreader on the market. I remeber that [Picture: Detailed drawing of spreader] <--see opposite page [Picture: Spreader pulled by horses]

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• 1948_1_017
• MS02.01.28.017

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1948

Date created

• 1948-01-13

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/70795c32m

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.28.017.018

Last modified

• 2023-09-06