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 ...

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 ...

Evidently Karl slipped on giving us the complete name and address of the writer, or the writer did. It is an interesting article anyway. Ed.

The fourth annual Reunion and Steam Show of the Old Time Threshers and Sawmill Operators was held on the James Whitbey farm at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The reunion ran for four days, opening on, Thursday, ...

The machine was built in 1875 at Westminster, Maryland by the Taylor Manufacturing Company, and was a prize winner at the Paris Exposition in 1878. It is a horse-drawn model Dry Steam Portable engine.

REPRINT This paper was presented at a meeting of the Central Illinois Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers on December 17, 1951. Subject to revision. Permission to publish this paper, in ...

We print herewith the letter accompanying the article ‘The Nominal Horse Power of English Traction Engines’ by Mr. W. Michael Salmon. First I must say how pleased I was to see my letter to you in ...

When we were kids, we’d peek inside At the engine with some fear; And watch the wheels go round and round Oh, the life of an Engineer.

The Robinson Traction Engine, once numbered with the ‘well knowns’ seems to be now almost forgotten. A few words of history might be of interest, especially to the Old Timers. The Robinson Company, ...

As I enjoy the letters the old timers write in IRON-MEN ALBUM, I thought I would try my luck either for it or the waste basket. Some boys want a dog or a pony but it seems I was interested in nothing ...