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Use this interactive tractor timeline to learn about the history of tractors. Dive into the history of tractor development and see how the evolution of these farm implements has changed how we farm and made it possible to increase our crop yields.
6 lut 2021 · A timeline shows how farming tools and agricultural inventions drove modernization from manual labor to mechanization in the 1800s and 1900s.
A culture of innovation in America’s farming industry has taken us from the steel plow blade to today’s smart devices. Take a journey through the history of tractors and these incredible milestones in our new tractor timeline feature.
27 sie 2021 · Below are detailed timelines covering farm machinery and technology, transportation, life on the farm, farmers and the land, and crops and livestock. During the latter part of the 18th century, farmers relied on oxen and horses to power crude wooden plows.
From soil-scratching sticks to the mechanization era in the mid-1800s to the chemistry era after World War II to today’s precision age that automatically guides high-powered tractors and combines, farm equipment has evolved through the ages to meet the food, fuel and clothing needs of the earth’s ever-growing population.
1 mar 2018 · Early tractors used power to revolutionize work on the farm, and centuries later farmers used tractors to show the power of protest. Whether protesting on the streets or harvesting food for our tables, the tractors in the museum's collection help us better understand agricultural history.
19 sty 2020 · The first engine-powered farm tractors used steam and were introduced in 1868. These engines were built as small road locomotives and were handled by one operator if the engine weighed less than five tons.
