Steam Power on the American Farm /

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wik, Reynold M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
Agricultural machinery.
Steam-engines.
Agriculture > United States > History.
Machines agricoles.
Machines à vapeur.
steam locomotives.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
Agriculture.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. Steam Power Comes to the Farm
  • II. The Portable Agricultural Steam Engine
  • III. Portable Steam Engines Used for Threshing Purposes
  • IV. Self-Propelled Agricultural Steam Engines
  • V. The Steam-Engine Boom, 1885-1912
  • VI. The Heyday of Steam Power on the Farm
  • VII. Distribution, Financing, and Sale of Steam Traction Engines
  • VIII. Threshermen's Organizations and Schools
  • IX. The Development of the Tractor and the Decline of Steam Power
  • Notes
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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