"Farm Tractors: A Living History" chronicles the ground-breaking John Deere, International, Ford, Allis-Chalmers, and other makes that shaped the modern farm. The technological development of farm power is traced from the back-breaking days of horse farming through the steam-powered iron beasts and on to the development of the internal combustion engine and the creation of the tractor as we know it today.
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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OTTO VON GUERICKE LAUNCHED THE world into self-propelled motion roughly 350 years ago in Germany. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
belt pulley horsepower, drawbar horsepower, top road speed, log hauler, tractor makers, steam traction engines, gasoline tractors, tractor company, horsepower hours, first tractor, crawler tractors, new tractor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry Ford, University of Nebraska, International Harvester, North America, Harry Ferguson, New York, John Deere, Henry Dreyfuss, Waterloo Boy, Art Rosen, Baer Ewing, Ford Model, Ford Motor Company, Palmer Fossum, United Kingdom, Andy Kerr, Ferguson System, Nicolaus Otto, Rudolf Diesel, Silver King, Case Plow Works, Daniel Best, Department of Agriculture, James Watt New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
OTTO VON GUERICKE LAUNCHED THE world into self-propelled motion roughly 350 years ago in Germany. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
belt pulley horsepower, drawbar horsepower, top road speed, log hauler, tractor makers, steam traction engines, gasoline tractors, tractor company, horsepower hours, first tractor, crawler tractors, new tractor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry Ford, University of Nebraska, International Harvester, North America, Harry Ferguson, New York, John Deere, Henry Dreyfuss, Waterloo Boy, Art Rosen, Baer Ewing, Ford Model, Ford Motor Company, Palmer Fossum, United Kingdom, Andy Kerr, Ferguson System, Nicolaus Otto, Rudolf Diesel, Silver King, Case Plow Works, Daniel Best, Department of Agriculture, James Watt New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Harry Ferguson Inventor and Pioneer by Colin Fraser on page 191
- My Life by Josephine Shannon Ferguson on page 184
- Treatise on the Steam Engine: Historical, Practical and Descriptive: v. 2 by JOHN FAREY on page 4
- My Forty Years With Ford (Great Lakes Books) by Charles E. Sorensen on page 191
- Henry Ford (People We Should Know) by Jonatha A. Brown on page 194
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