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Significant Development
The very first self propelled vehicle was a military tractor invented by a French
mechanic named Nicholas Cugnot. It was made for the Paris arsenal to move
military equipment
The very first successful gas tractor was built by John Froelich. It was assembled
from parts and pieces of other machines. He used a Van Duzen vertical stroke
engine. It was employed for threshing.
First U.S. factory for tractors driven by an internal combustion engine.
Charles Hart and Charles Parr establish the first U.S. factory devoted to
manufacturing a traction engine powered by an internal combustion engine. Smaller
and lighter than its steam-driven predecessors, it runs all day on one tank of fuel.
Hart and Parr are credited with coining the term "tractor" for the traction engine
First crawler tractor with tracks rather than wheels by Benjamin Holt,
First agricultural engineering curriculum at Iowa State College. Jay Brownlee
Davidson designs the first professional agricultural engineering curriculum at then-
Iowa State College. Davidson also becomes the first president of the American
Society of Agricultural Engineers in 1907, leading agricultural mechanization
missions to the Soviet Union and China.
Deere&Co. Which we presently know as John Deere begin their tractor production
The British war office order a Holt tractor and chose it as a gun tractor. The holt
75HP model gasoline powered tractor was the first "standard" tractor adopted in
quantity. It was a major artillery tractor used in WW1
Henry Ford & Son Corporation—a spinoff of the Ford Motor Company— begins
production of the Fordson tractor. Originally called the "automobile plow" and
designed to work 10- to 12-acre fields, it costs as little as $395 and soon
accounts for 50 percent of the worldwide market for tractors.
Center pivot irrigation machine invented. Colorado farmer Frank Zybach invents
the center pivot irrigation machine, which revolutionizes irrigation technology. The
system consists of sprinklers attached to arms that radiate from a water-filled hub
out to motorized wheeled towers in the field. Zybach is awarded a patent in 1952
for the "Self- Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Apparatus."
Corn head attachments for combines are introduced. The John Deere and
International Harvester companies introduce corn head attachments for their
combines.
For the first time in American History Tractors outnumbered the Horses on a farm.
The agricultural equipment industry's dream to replace animal power is realized as
tractor becomes an efficient and viable machine
The Gyral air seeder is patented. The Gyral air seeder, which plants seeds
through a pneumatic delivery system, is patented in Australia.
Eicher rolls out India's first indigenously built tractor from its Faridabad factory
The DICKEY-john Manufacturing Company introduces electronic monitoring
devices for farmers that allow them to plant crops more efficiently.
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Year Major World Events
1903 Wright Bros. first flight Picture
1905 Einstein's Theory of Relativity Picture
1914-1918World War 1 Picture
First talking motion picture, The jazz singer, released
1927 by Warner Brothers. Picture
Crash on New York Stock Exchange marks the
1929 beginning of the Great Depression. Picture
Mahatma Gandhi leads ‘Salt march’ in India to
1930 protest against British tax on salt production. Picture
Germany invades Poland.Britain and France declare
war on Germany—beginning of World War II.
1939 Picture
Britain partitions India into two independent
1947 dominions: India and Pakistan Picture
Popularity of rock’n’roll; Elvis Presley dominates US
1955 Top Ten record charts. Picture
Mother India becomes the first movie to nominated
1957 for an Oscar. Picture
US astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man
1969 to walk on the moon. Picture
world’s first personal computer IBM-PC is launched
1981 Picture
1983 India win the Cricket World Cup Picture
1998 France win the Football Worldcup Picture
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