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John Froelich (November 24, 1849 – May 24, 1933) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the first stable gasoline-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears. [1] [2] He received several patents relating to tractors and internal combustion engines. [3]
The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company was the first company to manufacture and sell gasoline powered farm tractors. Based in Waterloo, Iowa , the company was created by John Froelich and a group of Iowa businessmen in 1893, and was originally named the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company .
Volvo T25, 1956, gasoline tractor. The classic farm tractor is a simple open vehicle, with two very large driving wheels on an axle below a single seat (the seat and steering wheel consequently are in the center), and the engine in front of the driver, with two steerable wheels below the engine compartment. This basic design has remained ...
Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
Charles Walter Hart (July 6, 1872 — March 14, 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and businessman. Together with Charles Henry Parr, he founded a company that produced a commercially successful line of gasoline-powered tractors.
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In 1902, they developed a gasoline engine for tractors and one year later invented the first known kerosene-run engine, which needed just 50% of the fuel that ran the gasoline engine. [4] Also 1903, they built the country's first internal combustion engine. [3] For a time, Hart-Parr tractors were a leading type, sold in the US and other ...
Holt Tractors: An Album of Steam and Early Gas Tractors. Photo Archive Series. Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States: Iconografix. ISBN 978-1-882256-10-5 Early Caterpillar tractors, & steam tractors that made Holt famous. Created by the company as a record of the steam & gas tractors built between 1894 & 1912.