Elise Bergerson. Picking up from where yesterdayâs interview left off, Jay Wilds continued to speak with The Intercept about Serial. Wilds opened up about meeting with Sarah Koenig during her reporting for the podcast and why he decided against appearing on Serial to present his side of the story.
Cyrus McCormick wanted to design equipment that would simplify farmers' work. In 1831, he invented a horse-drawn reaper to harvest grain and started selling it to others in 1840. It allowed the farmer to do five times the amount of harvesting in a day than they could by hand using a scythe.
The steel plow, first created by inventor John Deere in 1837, was strong enough to plow virgin prairie soil but lightweight enough to be managed by a single farmer and team of oxen. The steel plow... The steel plow, first created by inventor John Deere in 1837, was strong enough to plow virgin prairie soil but lightweight enough to be managed by a single farmer and team of oxen.