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    This article discusses tractors and their history. Tractors are vehicles used in agriculture and construction to pull plows, till soil, and haul equipment. The first tractors were steam-powered and date back to the early 19th century. They were initially stationary engines used to power farm machinery via belts, but were later developed into portable steam-powered engines called traction engines. By the late 19th century, the standard form of the traction engine had been established, featuring a boiler and a wheeled chassis. These were widely adopted for agricultural use.

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    This article discusses tractors and their history. Tractors are vehicles used in agriculture and construction to pull plows, till soil, and haul equipment. The first tractors were steam-powered and date back to the early 19th century. They were initially stationary engines used to power farm machinery via belts, but were later developed into portable steam-powered engines called traction engines. By the late 19th century, the standard form of the traction engine had been established, featuring a boiler and a wheeled chassis. These were widely adopted for agricultural use.

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    This article discusses tractors and their history. Tractors are vehicles used in agriculture and construction to pull plows, till soil, and haul equipment. The first tractors were steam-powered and date back to the early 19th century. They were initially stationary engines used to power farm machinery via belts, but were later developed into portable steam-powered engines called traction engines. By the late 19th century, the standard form of the traction engine had been established, featuring a boiler and a wheeled chassis. These were widely adopted for agricultural use.

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    This article is about the vehicle used in agriculture or construction. For the power unit of a semi-
    trailer truck (articulated lorry), see Tractor unit. For other uses, see Tractor (disambiguation).

    A tractor pulling a chisel plow ikn Slovenia.

    A rubber tracked tractor pulling a disc harrow.

    A scale model of a modern Mahindra tractor in Punjab, India.

    Farm tractor in Balnain, Scotland.

    Alvin O. Lombard of Waterville, Maine, invented in 1901 a tractor for hauling logs, as displayed at the Maine
    State Museum in the capital city of Augusta. Known as "Lombard Log Haulers," these vehicles revolutionized
    logging in Maine.

    The word tractor was taken from Latin, being the agent noun of trahere "to pull".[1][2] The first recorded
    use of the word meaning "an engine or vehicle for pulling wagons or ploughs" occurred in 1896, from
    the earlier term "traction engine" (1859).[3]

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    Traction engines

    John Fowler pioneered the application of steam power to agriculture in the 1850s, and invented machines for
    ploughing and digging drainage channels.

    The first powered farm implements in the early 19th century were portable engines steam engines
    on wheels that could be used to drive mechanical farm machinery by way of a flexible belt. Richard
    Trevithick designed the first 'semi-portable' stationary steam engine for agricultural use, known as a
    "barn engine" in 1812, and it was used to drive a corn threshing machine.[4] The truly portable engine
    was invented in 1839 by
    and the rear axle.[6]

    1882 Harrison Machine Works steam-powered traction engine.

    The first half of the 1m idsjvnmvsdngusfh860s was a period of great experimentation but by the end
    of the decade the standard form of the traction engine had evolved and would change little over the
    next sixty years. It was widely adopted for agricjxnvijsvhiusfultural use. The first tractors were steam-
    powered plowing engineslkvnsoiv They were used in pairs, placed on either side of a field to haul a
    plow back and forth between them using a wire cable. In
    Britain Mann's and Garrett developed steam tractors for direct ploughing, but the heavy, wet soil of
    England meanishdfirhgiuhdft vsffsx these designs were less economical than a team of horses. In
    the United States, where soil conditions permitted, steam tractors were used to direct-haul plows.

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