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Rumely Companies' Agricultural Products
Society: ASME Main Category: Mechanical Sub Category: Agriculture Era: 1850-1859 DateCreated: 1853 1007 Lincolnway La Porte State: IN Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-a-l/agriculture/-225-rumely-companies--agricultural-products-%281853, https://www.asme.org/getmedia/d44ed4fd-8920-4082-9a6a-b0a7a4f0c99a/225-Rumely-Companies-Agricultural-Products.aspx Creator: Rumely, Meinrad

Beginning with the blacksmith shop of German immigrant Meinrad Rumely (1823-1904), this successive family of firms invented and produced a line of agricultural equipment that played a vital role in the evolution of farming based on the muscle of humans and animals to one based on the power of the steam and ultimately the internal-combustion engine. The M. & J. Rumely Co. became the M. Rumely Co., and then the Advance Rumely Co. The Allis-Chalmers Company acquired the business in 1931.

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Image Credit: Courtesy Wikipedia/BulldozerD11 (CC BY-SA 3.0) Image Caption: Rumely Companies' Agricultural Products Era_date_from: 1853
Society: ASME Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Agriculture Era: 1900-1909 DateCreated: 1903 Charles City State: IA Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-a-l/agriculture/-190-hart-parr-tractor-%281903%29 Creator: Hart, Charles Walter
This landmark artifact represents the first commercially successful farm tractor in the world powered by an internal-combustion engine. It was invented and built by Charles W. Hart and Charles H. Parr in Charles City, Iowa, as their Model 3, following two prototype versions.
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1996
Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/Norbert Schnitzler (CC BY-SA 2.0) Image Caption: Hart Parr Tractor Era_date_from: 1903
Fresno Scraper
Society: ASME Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Agriculture Era: 1880-1889 DateCreated: 1883 Fresno State: CA Zip: Country: USA Website: http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-a-l/agriculture/-158-fresno-scraper-%281883%29 Creator: Porteous, James

The Fresno scraper established the basis for the modern earthmoving scraper, being able to scrape and move a load of soil, then discharge it at a controlled depth. It quadrupled the productivity of manual labor, replacing hand shoveling of earth into horse carts.

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1991
Image Credit: Courtesy Flickr/Alisha Vargas (CC BY 2.0) Image Caption: Fresno Scraper Era_date_from: 1883
Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection
Society: ASME Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Agriculture Era: 1860-1869 DateCreated: 1860s Knox County Historical Society Mount Vernon State: OH Zip: 43050 Country: USA Website: http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-a-l/agriculture/-201-cooper-steam-traction-engine-collection-%28late, https://www.asme.org/getmedia/4071fc96-7a0c-4d14-8f4e-5d9371c259b2/201-Cooper-Steam-Traction-Engine.aspx Creator: Cooper & Co.

These engines, built by Cooper & Co., of Mount Vernon are among the oldest surviving agricultural steam engines to show the evolution from the portable, skid-mounted engine (ca. 1860) to the horse-drawn engine (1875), through the self-propelled but horse-guided engine (1875) and finally to the self-propelled, self-steered traction engine (1883). Such engines powered the conversion to mechanized farming, which was a great hallmark of the Industrial Revolution.

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1998
Image Credit: Courtesy ASME Image Caption: Cooper Self-Propelled, Self-Steering Traction Engine Era_date_from: 1860s
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Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection

These engines, built by Cooper & Co., of Mount Vernon are among the oldest surviving agricultural steam engines to show the evolution from the portable, skid-mounted engine (ca. 1860) to the horse-drawn engine (1875), through the self-propelled but horse-guided engine (1875) and finally to…

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Fresno Scraper

The Fresno scraper established the basis for the modern earthmoving scraper, being able to scrape and move a load of soil, then discharge it at a controlled depth. It quadrupled the productivity of manual labor, replacing hand shoveling of earth into horse carts.

James Porteous, a…

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This landmark artifact represents the first commercially successful farm tractor in the world powered by an internal-combustion engine. It was invented and built by Charles W. Hart and Charles H. Parr in Charles City, Iowa, as their Model 3, following two prototype versions. Major accomplishments… Read More
Rumely Companies' Agricultural Products

Beginning with the blacksmith shop of German immigrant Meinrad Rumely (1823-1904), this successive family of firms invented and produced a line of agricultural equipment that played a vital role in the evolution of farming based on the muscle of humans and animals to one based on the power of…

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