The front of the tractor gives a sense that the machine might be more delicate than it really is. It weighs 2,400 pounds.

Before the organization of the International Harvester Co., there were a number of independent companies manufacturing grain binders, mowers, rakes and other farm machinery. Here they are as I ...

Manufacturers of Steam Engines and Hardware W hen Philander P. Lane opened his first small machine shop in downtown Cincinnati, in 1850, he owned only three machine tools. Ten years later, he was one ...

A front view of the Thelemann Thieman tractor shows the tubular frame and chrome shrouding normally found on a Ford Model A, the donor of the engine. This brochure touts the Thieman tractor as "A farm ...

An early 1900s postcard view of Henry Burden’s water wheel that was, by that time, derelict, having been abandoned in the 1890s. Henry Burden was a prolific inventor, but it was his horseshoe machine ...

State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...

This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...

Present-day reproductions of the original Zerk fitting as used on Model A Fords and sold by Snyder’s Antique Auto Parts, New Springfield, Ohio. Anyone familiar with machinery of any kind, especially ...

Gil Roberts and his 1913 25-75 HP Gaar-Scott, serial no. 15899. Gil, who lives in Somerset, Va., runs this engine every year at the Somerset Steam and Gas Engine Assn.’s Annual Steam and Gas Pasture ...

The tall tailings elevator tossed the straw into an ever-growing pile, while wheat slowly worked its way through the swaying separator’s sieve-filled belly and fell into bags below. Like a threshing ...

Five people were killed as the result of the explosion of a Case 110 steam traction engine in Medina, Ohio on July 29. The engine was being moved to the Medina County Fairgrounds, in preparation for ...