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

Take a look at the humble beginnings of the Ferguson tractor, a machine featuring a hydraulic system that revolutionized ...

Hear a first hand account of life working in the Fox River Tractor Company's Appleton, Wisconsin, factory from a long time ...

Model 100-20 B.H.P. Steam Generator and four cylinder uniflow engine. 8125 State Street, South Gate, Calif. It has been ten years since I first announced my Uniflow Steam Engine. Since then I have ...

This elephant family sculpture was made by Mike Orr. Note the use of farm tractor pieces, including fenders from Farmall and Ford tractors. Mike Orr of rural South Haven, Minnesota, loves collecting ...

Roger Elwood’s Ford 8N vineyard prototype has a uniquely narrow profile. Henry Ford would have had a field day at the 2023 Ford/Fordson Collectors Assn. (FFCA) national show held in conjunction with ...

A sheet-metal Big 4 pedal tractor, one of several pedal tractors George keeps for his grandchildren to play with when they come to visit. George Molus has become something of an expert on restoring ...

Before a crowd of farmers and businessmen who’d invested in a sugar beet refinery, this farmer uses what appears to be a horse-drawn side lifter beet harvester. In The Beet-Sugar Industry in 1920, ...

A junior-size press like this would have been capable of producing up to 150 gallons of apple juice per day. When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in ...

This photo shows Terry and Anna Hoban with their granddaughters, Zoie and Rowan. This photo was taken on the acreage I grew up on southwest of Maxwell, Nebraska. Pictured behind them is a 1942 John ...

A 1927 F.E. Myers bulldozer pump and 1929 and 1945 Flint & Walling shallow well pumps. In 1950, Ivan Fay Dohm started a well drilling business in Dowagiac, Michigan. A few years later, he bought a ...