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

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 ...

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 ...

The arduous task of summer harvest was first undertaken using a primitive cradle, or scythe connected to four to six long wooden ribs that could hold several hand swathings. These were then dropped in ...