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 ...

This is a picture of the barn on my home place. The right hand section was built by my father in 1905 as mentioned in my article. Picture was taken in 1916.I am in the hayrack. Oslo, Minnesota 56744 ...

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

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 ...

12498 14th Ave. N. Haney, B.C., Canada The Bryan light steam tractor was made about 1920, until depression days in 1933 when lots of good companies folded up. This tractor was made by the Bryan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...