Tractor the heartland innovation, ground-breaking machines, midnight schemes, secret garages, and farmyard geniuses that mechanized agriculture
"This rollicking ride into machine history follows the innovators, entrepreneurs, and hucksters who transformed our world with farm machines of all colors. Starting with the turn-of-the-century visionaries who saw that four wheels and a motor could replace for the horse, the book moves swiftly...
| Main Author: | Klancher, Lee, 1966- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[place of publication not identified] :
Octane Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The machines that changed the world
- Prologue: The harvest proving ground
- The first tractors (1889-1906)
- The Prairie tractor era (1907-1916)
- The small tractor emerges (1917-1928)
- The rise of style (1929-1944)
- The post-war boom (1945-1953)
- Hungry for power (1954-1959)
- The space age (1960-1969)
- The dawn of power farming (1970-1979)
- Only the strong will survive (1980-1989)
- The rebound (1990-1999)
- The twenty-first century (2000-present)
- Epilogue: The future of the tractor.