From left, brothers Elwood, Tom East and Sid East with the miniature steam-powered tractor their father built in 1932, at Tom East's home on Old U.S. 27 in Nicholasville. Curtis East made the ...

Britain once led the world in developing agricultural steam power, with stationary engines arriving on farms in the 1790s, followed later by portable and traction engines as well as cable-operated ...

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In the late 1800s, farmers on Delmarva began a transition from horse-drawn implements to a new innovation in a fast-evolving industrial age. That new invention was the steam-powered tractor, which was ...