An agricultural inventions timeline of the most significant agricultural inventions during the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. Ten years ago this month, the first issue of Farm ...

Case Steam Engine No. 1. Traction steam engines were made about 1876. These early models required a team hitched in front for steering. By 1885 this was changed by the use of steering chains wound ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

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 ...

In 1856 a young Arthur Briggs Farquhar went to work for the W.W. Dingee & Co., a small manufacturer of agricultural implements in York, Pa. Born Sept. 28, 1838, Farquhar was not quite 18 years old at ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

This issue of the Iron-Men Album brings us to the 10th installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book ...

The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...

Tracks for the first transcontinental railroad met inPromontory, Utah Territory, in 1869. Two family names – Holt and Best – are inexorably linked to the great name of Caterpillar, the Caterpillar ...

Edward Rumely, the man who brought the company into the modern age, encouraged development of the popular OilPull tractor line. A mighty Rumely 30-60 Oilpull Tractor gains fame for the company as it ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...