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Roy Harrington

Roy Harrington

Age: 82
Interview Date: 10/1/2008
Interviewer: Michael Maniscalso, Illinois State Museum
Interview Length: 102 minutes Sit-Down Interview
County: Rock Island
Roy is a retired mechanical engineer who began working for John Deere & Company in 1950. He designed and tested many pieces of Deere equipment, including tractor seats, roll-over cages, and power take-off (PTO) shields.

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80s

BioID: 38

County: Rock Island

Gender: Male

Interview Decade: 2000s

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File Label: ISM Interviews A-L, Segment 13

SEGMENT: FAMILY FARM, CHILDHOOD WORK, & CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Video duration 08:37

Good for your character: duration 00:58

My Rural School: duration 00:59

SEGMENT: CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Video duration 08:48

Recess: duration 01:02

Sister was part boy: duration 00:53

SEGMENT: FARMING DURING WWII: Video duration 07:27

Family goes to college: duration 01:05

Agricultural engineering: duration 00:51

SEGMENT: FARM EQUIPMENT: Video duration 11:35

First Job with John Deere: duration 02:19

Redesigning a Baler: duration 00:52

Improving the tractor seat: duration 01:08

SEGMENT: CHANGES IN FARM EQUIPMENT: Video duration 08:42

Let's stick with horses: duration 00:44

The New Generation: duration 00:57

SEGMENT: FARM EQUIPMENT: Video duration 07:22

Deere shares safety inventions with the industry: duration 00:47

Three-point hitch a great invention: duration 01:12

You could lose a hand: duration 00:35

Deere engineering department: duration 01:54

SEGMENT: FARM EQUIPMENT: Video duration 08:20

Bale Throwers: duration 02:28

At Deere, we could stretch our imaginations: duration 01:05

SEGMENT: GLOBAL POLITICS: Video duration 06:48

India development: duration 01:51

Indian farming and tractors: duration 00:55

SEGMENT: FARM EQUIPMENT & FARM-RELATED WORK: Video duration 14:45

Surveying farmers and testing: duration 01:10

From Magneto to GPS: duration 01:14