What contributions did Cyrus McCormick and John Deere make to farming?

Obtain John Deere’s 2016 annual report either through the ‘‘Investor Relations’’ portion of their website (do a web search for John Deere investor relations) or go to www.sec.gov and click ‘‘Company Filings Search’’ under ‘‘Filings.’’

Required:

Refer to John Deere’s investing and financing activities. What were some of John Deere’s significant uses of cash? What were some of John Deere’s significant sources of cash?

The reliability of a system with $n$ independent components equals:

a) the sum of the individual reliabilities.

b) the minimum reliability among all components.

c) the maximum reliability among all components.

d) the product of the individual reliabilities.

e) the average of the individual reliabilities.

Match the term with the following definitions.

Mastitis

a. Sense nutrient deficiencies

b. "Bug bomb"

c. Nitrogen fixation

d. Disease of poultry

e. Sharp points to discourage livestock

f. Colorful flower

g. Eli Whitney

h. Curd from soybeans

i. John Deere

j. New research objective

k. Cyrus McCormick

1. Infection of milk-secreting glands

m. Anna Baldwin

Explain the difference between
(a) probability and reliability and
(b) robustness and reliability.

Obtain John Deere’s 2016 annual report either through the ‘‘Investor Relations’’ portion of their website (do a web search for John Deere investor relations) or go to www.sec.gov and click ‘‘Company Filings Search’’ under ‘‘Filings.’’

Required:

Are the time commitments of inflows and outflows well matched by John Deere?

The inventor of the iron plow was
a. Cyrus McCormick.
c. Joseph Glidden.
b. John Deere.
d. Thomas Jefferson.

Identify and explain the significance:

Michael Faraday

Thomas Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Guglielmo Marconi

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Identify: Edwin Drake, Morrill Tariff, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison.

What is the reliability of the system shown?

What did Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell invent?

How did the textile business work when It was a cottage industry?

Define and explain: forty-niners

How were European political thinkers of the Enlightenment influenced by ideas from other cultures?