Tractor: The Heartland Innovation, Ground-Breaking Machines, Midnight Schemes, Secret Garages, and Farmyard Geniuses that Mechanized Agriculture

( 14 Reviews )

engineering

Detail:

Kindle Edition

Pages:

243

Language:

English

ISBN10:

N/A

ISBN13:

N/A

Publication Date:

06 May

Writer: Lee Klancher

Description

This rollicking ride into machine history follows the innovators, entrepeneurs and hucksters who transformed our world with farm machines. 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 behind and independent builders and farmers began creating their own solutions with a pencil drawing and a welder. The book includes stories of the butcher shop where John Deere secretly designed a completely new line of four-cylinder tractors, to the skullduggery and corporate raiding that took place in fields and back lots as company agents schemed to discover what their dirty ol’ competitors had up their sleeves. The book moves all the way up through the creation of the first tractor electronics, the merger movement of the 1980s, and the emergence of the high-technology innovations such as smart farms and auto-guidance which are changing the farm as we know it. This raucous, heartfelt book shines a light on some of the bright minds and innovative companies which emerged from the fertile fields of America’s heartland.

Books by Lee Klancher

engineering

Tractor: The Heartland Innovation, Ground-Breaking Machines, Midnight Schemes, Secret Garages, and Farmyard Geniuses that Mechanized Agriculture

( 14 Reviews )

Reviews (14)

Reviews (14)

Jenn Wilson

Great

Bought for a gift, he absolutely loved it. No complaints.

Arslan Chaudhary

Print too small on kindle.

Looks to be a great book but even with the font size up all the way, the print is still too small to read on the kindle. Will probably just buy the actual hard copy. Always enjoy Lee Klancher books.

Francis Parisien

Nice Book

My husband likes to read about tractors.

Jessica Bell-McLean

Tractor time!

I liked it passed the test of my husband and grandson.

Desirae Beck

How tractor and society worked together

A very interesting approach to the various aspects of farm mechanization and tractor development.

Keith Wages

good book

Lori Dunn

fabulous book!

incredible photos combined with an interesting, comprehensive history of the subject. A great gift for anyone who has anything to do the tractors (and also would likely be enjoyed by all who are interested in mechanical things). Also should be read by those interested in the development of agriculture; as the title suggests, agriculture was changed because of the tractor (less)

Jill Davis

Great

Bought for a gift, he absolutely loved it. No complaints.

Gabriel Bereta

Print too small on kindle.

Looks to be a great book but even with the font size up all the way, the print is still too small to read on the kindle. Will probably just buy the actual hard copy. Always enjoy Lee Klancher books.