Tractor : the heartland innovation, ground-breaking machines, midnight schemes, secret garages, and farmyard geniuses that mechanized agriculture

Klancher, Lee 1966- (author.).

Summary: "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 through key early developments to cover the power farming movement of the latter part of the 20th century- a time when major manufacturers lagged and independent builders and farmers began creating their own machines with a pencil drawing and a welder. The book includes key moments of tractor history."--book jacket

Record details

ISBN: 1937747956
ISBN: 9781937747954
Physical Description: print
xi, 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: [Austin, Texas] : Octane Press, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliography references (page 225) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The machines that changed the world -- Prologue: The harshest 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.