A.B. Wilson steam traction engine patent model 1 of kind # on working model 42 " - $25,000 - (Apollo Beach, FL)
1928 A. B. Wilson Tractor Company steam engine working patent scale model. The model weighs 210 pounds is 42 in. long x 21 inches wide x 32 inches high. Buyer is responsible for shipping and pick-up. In 1769 James Watt took out a patent on a steam engine making use of a separate condenser. James Watt's improved steam engine transformed previously designed steam engines, which had hardly changed for fifty years, into a source of power that transformed the world of work, and was the key innovation that brought forth the Industrial Revolution. Farmers started buying self-propelled steam engines in the late 1870's in considerable numbers. In 1890 approximately 3000 steam tractors and 2661 steam threshers were built. In 1894 several plow manufacturers advertised multiple-bottom steam tractor plows or gangs. By 1900 more than 30 firms were manufacturing some 5,000 large steam-traction engines a year. These tractors were greatly improved over earlier models.Traction engines were cumbersome and ill-suited to crossing soft or heavy ground so their agricultural use was usually either "in the belt" – powering farm machinery by means of a continuous leather belt driven by the flywheel – or in pairs, dragging an implement on a cable from one side of a field to another. However, where soil conditions permitted, direct hauling of implements ("off the drawbar") was preferred – in the U.S., this led to the divergent development of the steam tractorA.B. Wilson came along in 1928 with what he thought was a better Idea. He invented a smaller tractor with rubber wheels and a fast forward and reverse. He patented his invention and received patent # Production started in Melvin – only one was produced. The market went to gasoline engines and he was just too late.This model was purchased at a Smithsonian Surplus Item Auction by Butterfield and Butterfield in San Francisco in 1991. Please check photos as they are part of the description and this is model you will receive. Fl resi…
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