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

by Klancher, Lee, author.

[Austin, Texas] : Octane Press, 2018.

xi, 228 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

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.

"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

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