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

Hear a first hand account of life working in the Fox River Tractor Company's Appleton, Wisconsin, factory from a long time ...

The 21st century offers everyone endless opportunities to be entertained. Movies, television, computers, smart phones, and even virtual reality devices that put one almost anywhere in the world. A ...

In 1917 the Davis Manufacturing Co. engine plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was purchased, becoming Avery Co. Plant No. 3. They were then prepared to build all of their own engines. The Glide automobile ...

The machine was built in 1875 at Westminster, Maryland by the Taylor Manufacturing Company, and was a prize winner at the Paris Exposition in 1878. It is a horse-drawn model Dry Steam Portable engine.

As I enjoy the letters the old timers write in IRON-MEN ALBUM, I thought I would try my luck either for it or the waste basket. Some boys want a dog or a pony but it seems I was interested in nothing ...

The Robinson Traction Engine, once numbered with the ‘well knowns’ seems to be now almost forgotten. A few words of history might be of interest, especially to the Old Timers. The Robinson Company, ...

REPRINT This paper was presented at a meeting of the Central Illinois Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers on December 17, 1951. Subject to revision. Permission to publish this paper, in ...

This is a collection of cartoons that appeared in the Iron-Men Album and the Gas Engine Magazine. A laugh on every page. It is just the book to have on the library table for your guests to read while ...

The fourth annual Reunion and Steam Show of the Old Time Threshers and Sawmill Operators was held on the James Whitbey farm at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The reunion ran for four days, opening on, Thursday, ...

There are probably as many accidents and/or incidents today, with respect to the percentage of population, as there were in the earlier years and the frequency of fatalities and injuries are probably ...

After two years of planning, thirty-four members of the Club have everything in order for a fifteen day trip to Scotland and England. The tour is headed by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilburn, Past President ...