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

Case Steam Engine No. 1. Traction steam engines were made about 1876. These early models required a team hitched in front for steering. By 1885 this was changed by the use of steering chains wound ...

In the 1800’s at the town of Ketchum, Idaho, the Fast Freight Line, owned and operated by Horace Lewis – was in operation. Many freight outfits were in operation. Horace Lewis, ran one of the biggest ...

At Bradenton, Fla., the old Gordon C. Greenenow the River Queen last of the river packets, has found a home as a combination restaurant and museum. Courier-Journal Staff Writer Down in the quiet ...

A visitor to Hagerstown, Md., up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains some 75 miles west of Baltimore, might suspect that he was in the Chicago suburb of Pullman, III. Spotted in sidings all ...

One of the old horse carriages before 1900. Fifty years ago every large city was almost as jam-packed with horse-drawn vehicles as it is with automobiles today. Names like Studebaker and Brewster were ...

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Be it known that I, William Baxter, of the city of Newark, in ‘the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a ...

Threshing in the early 1900’s was a big deal. Wheat fields were large with an abundance of wheat, when the year yielded a good crop. Ernest Fette, Sr. (my father) owned three different types of ...

Courtesy of Clarence M. Reed, 426 Margaret St., Akron, Ohio New fan completed in September of 1965, for use with Gaar-Scott engine. Bearings and shaft from a Gaar-Scott saw mill,, bought second hand ...

A. Preston Gray, Kingsport, Tenn., on Lincoln's Choice, No. 9010, five-gaited Kentucky Saddle horse. 3501 Bristol Highway Kingsport, Tenn. A. Preston Gray of Kingsport, Tenn., believing that a tribute ...

Here is a most unusual engine. It is built of stone. Mr. George D. Winter, of Pipestone, Minsesota, is a farmer with a hobby of building miniature steam engines. He has been building them since he was ...

I have received my second issue of THE IRON-MEN ALBUM, I am certainly well pleased with the ALBUM and am very glad that Mr. Tom Smith of Sedalia, Mo., put me wise to it. When I sent in for it, in July ...