It’s not unusual for new technologies to preserve vestiges of those that preceded them. If an industry has an inertia of doing things in a particular way then it makes commercial sense for any ...

In 1769, military engineer Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot created a steam-powered tractor. These vehicles didn't need to constantly evaporate and condense water, but they did still rely on a supply of ...

Born of the steam engine boom of the Industrial Revolution, the first steam-powered tractors were produced in the early 1900s, essentially eliminating a farmer's reliance on horses and oxen to ...

[Rural Heritage TV] has video of a private tour of a working, two-story, steam-powered sawmill at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. This is believed to be one of the only working steam-powered band-sawmills ...