A World War I British Army truck powers its way through battlefield mud in an artist’s conception of the first mass-produced four-wheel drive vehicle. Orders for hundreds of these trucks put the ...

This idealized vision of a tobacco field does not reflect the time and toil exerted to create a sterilized planting bed. How did twentieth-century tobacco growers prepare beds for planting tobacco?

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

The John Deere Waterloo Boy Model N tractor had a 2-speed transmission, and most had automotive-type steering. It was sold until 1924, when Deere’s Model D was launched. In the early days of power ...

Dump rakes such as this one were generally drawn by a team of horses and consisted of a series of teeth set 4 inches apart between two wheels. A lever was used to dump the hay at a given spot as ...

Five people were killed as the result of the explosion of a Case 110 steam traction engine in Medina, Ohio on July 29. The engine was being moved to the Medina County Fairgrounds, in preparation for ...

Present-day reproductions of the original Zerk fitting as used on Model A Fords and sold by Snyder’s Antique Auto Parts, New Springfield, Ohio. Anyone familiar with machinery of any kind, especially ...

This Pastime washer, showing the firstvariant construction, is in remarkablygood original condition. Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, ...

Completing this series, Huber manufactured this 20-40 in 1914. It met with little success and was discontinued a year later. The next generation was a cross-motor design using a Waukesha engine. Rated ...

Scraping snow from the surface of the ice. Ice: Today, we take it for granted as we go to the refrigerator and stick a glass under the chute of the automatic ice cube maker. It wasn’t, of course, ...

This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...