Company History
5/25/2012 4:17:16 PM
The famous Case trademark eagle, “Old Abe,” was inspired by a real eagle that was a Civil War mascot
2/21/2012 10:38:17 AM
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Frick Co.’s ability to adapt led to long run
1/16/2012 10:21:38 AM
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: George Frick’s journey from humble beginnings to founding the successful Frick Co.
10/7/2010 12:05:45 PM
The origins and practice of the Case steam engine incline demonstration.
4/22/2010 11:29:55 AM
Collectible antique advertising leaflets give new perspective on the Huber Mfg. Co.
3/30/2010 8:53:59 AM
Roots of the Northwest Thresher Co. trace to the mid-1800s and prison labor in Minnesota.
9/25/2009 2:38:18 PM
Looking at the history of Greencastle engines and Crowell Mfg., with a view of the company's old headquarters today.
9/10/2009 1:53:24 PM
Aveling & Porter “Patent Farm and Road Locomotive” brochure from circa 1873 provides interesting perspective on traction engines.
9/4/2009 3:28:30 PM
The restored Isaac Ludwig Mill in Providence, Ohio, employs steam engines: an Erie 60 HP and an 1880-1890 Star 5 HP oil drilling engine.
9/3/2009 4:44:18 PM
The A.D. Baker Co. made the Uniflow engine and its Baker valve gear. A 1927 catalog reveals the company’s steam engines and road rollers.
9/3/2009 4:14:55 PM
John Gallahue, his son and father-in-law are all fascinated by Reeves steam traction engine.
9/3/2009 4:00:23 PM
Smith steam engines were designed and built by E.W. Smith & Sons Pty Ltd. of Coffs’ Harbour, NSW, Australia, from 1921 to early 1950.
8/28/2009 2:01:03 PM
Owner restores 16 HP Wood steam traction engine, taking it to New York Steam Engine Assn.’s Pageant of Steam. But curiosity about Wood engines persists.
8/25/2009 2:56:10 PM
The Wright family, who immigrated to the United States from England, had considerable influence on the design of the steamroller.
8/25/2009 12:37:19 PM
Waterloo Traction Engine turns out to be mystery engine in photo, reader concludes – and he has a wealth of evidence to prove it.
8/4/2009 2:25:57 PM
The antique steam traction engine hobby, past and present.
4/8/2009 4:53:34 PM
A Victorian-era Geiser Peerless steam engine advertisement.
10/9/2008 11:35:26 AM
The Russell steam traction engine was built by Russell & Co., which produced farm, traction and stationary engines, threshing machines, sawmills and road rollers.
10/9/2008 9:42:03 AM
A passion for steam leads to high-pressure museum in Utah.
10/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Marion, Ohio hosted a wide variety of industries in the 1800s.
9/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Iron Age Ads: An advertisement for the Avery Yellow fellow threshing machine celebrates the Avery Mfg. Co. workers.
4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Iron Age Ads: Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co. says don't meet me in St. Louie.
11/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Canadian based MacDonald Thresher Co. borrowed from A.D. Baker to build its Decker line of steam traction engines, earning them the moniker "Canadian Baker."
7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
With surviving engines few and far between, the history of Birdsall steam traction engines is still waiting to be written.
3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
From industrial revolutionary to rusty relic: Rumely remembered 150 years later
5/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Solving the mystery of the McLaughling Manufacturing Co. that made steam tractors and steam traction engines
5/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
The Aultman & Taylor Company begins to manufacture steam engines and traction engines.
3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Aultman & Taylor tries its hand at clover hullers, separators, sawmills and ensilage cutters.
1/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
George Frick and Peter Geiser started their companies making grain separators and steam engine, and changed the world of agriculture forever.
1/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Aultman & Taylor produced six distinct types of separators, including the New Century separator, the Vibrator Separator and the Columbia Separator.
12/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Brothers Ernest and Percy Petter turned England on its head with the invention of the horseless carriage Petter engine in the early 1900s.
11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Reorganization leads to a lucrative trade in water-tube boilers for Aultman & Taylor
7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
The fifth installment of the late Dr. Bixler's history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode, looks at more people, like the Harter family, who made the company famous.
5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Continuing the story of Aultman & Taylor, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, focusing on biographical narratives of important people in the company, notably the Harter family.
5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Steam in Transition: An in-depth history of the Nichols & Shepard and the Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company from 1848 through the 1920s.
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
George White & Sons Company helped move Canada's agriculture and food production methods forward.
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
A brief history of Charles Keller and his Bloomer Machine Works in Bloomer, Wisconsin.
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Continuing the history of Aultman & Taylor, looking at the board of directors and the company's first machines.
1/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Dr. Bixler continues the history of Aultman & Taylor, which includes the Vibrator thresher and help from Nichols & Shepard
11/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
The beginning of Dr. Lorin Bixler's in-depth history of Cornelius Aultman and the Aultman & Taylor company
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
The Bryan steam-powered tractor operated at three to four times greater pressure than did steam traction engines.
5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
For nearly one hundred years, Old Abe - the Case Eagle - has made its mark.
3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
J.I. Case, his thresher and the Golden Age of steam.
3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
The Brief History of Keck-Gonnerman Steam Engine Co., Mount Vernon, Indiana.
3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
A chapter from The Young Engineers' Guide, published in 1907 by the Frederick J. Drake & Company of Chicago, Ill.
11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Benjamin Holt designed the crawler tractor to work in the peat bogs of the San Joaquin Valley and Mormon Slough of central California
3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
A brief history of the Waterous Engine Works Co. Ltd.
9/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
A Case enthusiast stumbles across a one-of-a-kind 1897 15 HP Case compound steam traction engine.
3/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
An overview of the legendary 150 HP Case steam engine.
5/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
Engine numbers, cylinder sizes, horsepower ratings and years manufactured for Advance-Rumely Universal steam engines.
5/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
Leroy W. Blake shares his personal memories of the A.D. Baker Company, which built about 1,630 steam traction engines.
5/1/1964 12:00:00 AM
The Eagle Machine Works, of Indianapolis, is absolutely new to Iron-Men Album editor Elmer.
3/1/1959 12:00:00 AM
"The Head of the Herd," "Dean of the Chapel," remembering Oliver S. Kelly from the pages of American Thresherman.
7/1/1957 12:00:00 AM
Many people never knew the Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co. built double tandem compound steam traction engines.
9/1/1956 12:00:00 AM
Marcus Leonard offers a history of the Advance Thresher Co. and its purchase by Dr. Rumely in 1911 from the perspective of an employee.
3/1/1954 12:00:00 AM
History of the J.I. Case & Co. from its origins in the 1840s to the late 1800s.
11/1/1953 12:00:00 AM
A look at early steam tractor design and some of the oddest tractors in the early days of steam power on the farm.
11/1/1951 12:00:00 AM
E.C. Foreman of Tacoma, Ohio, shares his experience with Gaar-Scott Company.
9/1/1951 12:00:00 AM
Although American owned, the Canada-based American-Abell Engine & Thresher Company adopted the policy of “Canadian-made goods for Canadian users” and continued without interruption to build the threshing machinery formerly manufactured by the John Abell Engine & Machine Works Company.