Meet John Froelich, the oldest son of German immigrants, who was born in Iowa in 1849. The grain mill operator tinkered away on a gasoline traction, the tractor, that changed global agriculture.

Steam tractors first appeared on American farms in 1888, according to a history of tractors on Living History Farms’ website (lhf.org).

POWELL — Steam-engine tractors had a relatively short lifespan in terms of the length of time they were in use on American farms. But steam engines still live on in Nearly gone, but not forgotten ...

POWELL, Wyo. — Steam-engine tractors had a relatively short lifespan in terms of the length of time they were in use on American farms. But steam engines still live on ...

He commented that the surviving steam tractors tended to have been in continuous use at least into the 1930s, since idle machines were dismembered for parts during the Second World War.

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Kenny Buchheit stands next to a 1911 Avery steam-engine tractor, Thursday at the American Tractor Museum in Perryville, Missouri. Jeff Long ...

EDGAR, Wis. (WSAW) - Trains, tractors, and other antique farming equipment are on display now in Edgar for the annual Edgar Steam Show. For 51 years, Edgar has been a go-to place for teaching ...