The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early ...

In 2016, Charles Jennings of Foley, Alabama, was pouring concrete at a residential work site when he saw something ...

However, that didn’t stop inventive individuals from trying to make the automatic hay press a success. One such individual, ...

This unrestored 1939 Farmall tractor still looks ready for work even today. “I know what I know, and I’m not listening.” ...

A prairie breaking plow as displayed at the Mount Pleasant, Iowa, grounds of the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion. Today few folks would consider the State of Illinois as “The West,” but turn the ...

The Ontario Steam and Antique Preservers Association held their 3rd annual show in Milton, Ontario, over Labour Day weekend when an estimated 27,000 jammed into the Milton Fairgrounds to make it a ...

After being at the scene of the bridge accident in 1882 and told about the boiler explosion in 1884, what indescribable thing was there about a steam engine which caused me to have a desire to operate ...

Seeley Randall's 1 inch Hudson at the Saginaw Valley Live Steam Association Convention. See the report of this lively steam Association.

Report of the third reunion of Zehr’s Central States Steam Engine and Thresher Historical Association held near Pontiac, Illinois The third annual reunion of Zehr’s Central States Steam Engine and ...

19 Port Huron No. 8608 in excellent condition and runs perfect. Owned by Amos A. Post, R. 2, Lewistown, III. (There is nothing wrong with its looks either. Ed.) A Stationary engine in more ways than ...

It was not long before my husband’s retirement from the newspaper publishing business that he amazed me by announcing that he planned to buy a steam traction engine after he retired. Why in the world ...

"L'essai malheureux de la second machine de Cugnot en Novembre 1770."(The unfortunate test of Cugnot's second machine in November 1770.)No. 3. Col. Cugnot's military tractor of 1769. No. 5. The "slide ...