Could the white ring around this moon be warning of rain or snow? Early American farmers (and I’m sure many others) held some strange beliefs. Many of these superstitions survived until well into the ...

This Avery return-flue engine that was bought off the Avery Farm near Sterling, Kansas, is unlike any other Avery steam engine of that design known. Father and son’s collections have two Avery engines ...

After being at the scene of the bridge accident in 1882 and told about the boiler explosion in 1884, what indescribable thing was there about a steam engine which caused me to have a desire to operate ...

Edward Rumely, the man who brought the company into the modern age, encouraged development of the popular OilPull tractor line. A mighty Rumely 30-60 Oilpull Tractor gains fame for the company as it ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...

This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...

A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...

A junior-size press like this would have been capable of producing up to 150 gallons of apple juice per day. When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in ...

So, What Is an Indicator and How Does It Work? The indicator simply records, on a piece of paper, the pressure in one end of a steam cylinder as the piston of the engine moves from one end of its ...

Top: A Defiance claw hammer, one of five offered. Bottom: A machinist’s hammer, one of four offered. Both have the original paper Defiance label. Two 10-inch wrenches. The wrench labeled by Defiance ...