See Merve Yoder's extensive collection of vintage farm machines, including a McCormick reaper, a John Deere hay press, and more.

Join Barry Thomas as he explores the history of tractor tester Frederick A. Stobbe and his relationship with Ford, Ferguson, and Jeep.

The new Major was a robust and powerful tractor for the period, and the diesel versions in particular proved massively popular with British farmers. The Fordson Major was first introduced to the ...

I had restored tractors before but didn’t realize I was in for an education when it came to fixing up an Oliver Plowmaster 100. My father had a two-bottom 12-inch Plowmaster 100 that had been waiting ...

For every antique farm equipment enthusiast! Do you have a special place in your heart for the good old days of life on the American farm? Do your ears perk up at the sound of an old Johnny Popper ...

Tracks for the first transcontinental railroad met inPromontory, Utah Territory, in 1869. Two family names – Holt and Best – are inexorably linked to the great name of Caterpillar, the Caterpillar ...

An early 1900s postcard view of Henry Burden’s water wheel that was, by that time, derelict, having been abandoned in the 1890s. Henry Burden was a prolific inventor, but it was his horseshoe machine ...

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 ...

So, What Is an Indicator and How Does It Work? The indicator simply records, on a piece of paper, the pressure in one end of a steam cylinder as the piston of the engine moves from one end of its ...

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, ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...