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 ...

Delbert Miller’s 1896 Huber 16hp, expertly restored vintage steam engine. When you live around family members who restore antique engines, the collector bug is ever present. Delbert Miller explained ...

This 1938 50 HP Frick portable engine has been in the Nafe family for many years. It was purchased about thirty years ago by Manny Nafe of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania. The engine needed extensive boiler ...

Hocking Valley Junior cider mill. The two tubs allowed for increased production. When I think of cider, I find a refrain from a record on the old Edison phonograph dancing around in my head. “On the ...

The 21st century offers everyone endless opportunities to be entertained. Movies, television, computers, smart phones, and even virtual reality devices that put one almost anywhere in the world. A ...

In 1917 the Davis Manufacturing Co. engine plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was purchased, becoming Avery Co. Plant No. 3. They were then prepared to build all of their own engines. The Glide automobile ...

Not seeing any articles in Iron Men from this section of Indiana, thought I would write a few items about threshing in times past. In 1903 I was a boy ten years of age living on a farm near Brook, ...