Tag: history
100 years ago, progress meant infrastructure
Sam Moore recaps a 100-year-old letter to the Rural New Yorker, which described the construction of a military road during World War I.
How will people read your story?
We are now living through moments that will become history. What will we do about the things that are difficult to hear?
Readers share memories of ‘red dog’
In Sam Moore's June 6 column, he asked if any Farm and Dairy readers recalled traveling on red dog roads, and to his delight, received several replies.
Steam fueled a revolution, but was risky
One of the prime movers of the revolution was the steam engine and its ability to pull multiple cars of goods and people along tracks across the country.
All hail the royal hoopla
Kymberly Foster Seabolt might not know the royals like others do, but she's always happy to see history in the making.
Model AA was a small, sleek tractor in 1918
The 12-20 Model AA, introduced in July 1918, was a sleek design, with a fully enclosed, automotive hood and radiator and full fenders over the rear wheels.
Tragic fate of many horses in World War I
World War I took a toll the on horses. Barbed wire, rapid-fire machine guns and more accurate and deadly explosive artillery were difficult to contend with.
Barbed wire’s history entangled in war
Probably the first patent for a form of barbed wire was issued to Leonce Grassin-Baledans in 1860 in France during World War I.
Tractors replace animal-powered equipment
Beeman's garden tractors were one the first to advertise value over horses.
Standardization comes to the farm tractor
During the early years, both large and small manufacturers took a fling at building tractors, along with various tinkerers, dreamers and outright crooks.
