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Bookmark or Share- Meet the American who invented the gas-powered tractor ...His name was John Froelich. And he helped feed the world in ways that Bob Geldof, Boy George and a galaxy of other celebrities connected to the holiday hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" — including global community efforts to feed the world much, much later in the 1980s — could only imagine.
- Meet the American who invented the gas-powered tractor ...Meet John Froelich, the oldest son of German immigrants, who was born in Iowa in 1849. The grain mill operator tinkered away on a gasoline traction, the tractor, that changed global agriculture.
- John Froelich helped feed the world — here's how an Iowa ...The son of German immigrants, John Froelich paired a gas engine with gears and wheels to create the first tractor; it fed a growing nation and created an all-American image.
- John Froelich - WikipediaJohn Froelich (November 24, 1849 – May 24, 1933) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the first stable gasoline-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears. [1] [2] He received several patents relating to tractors and internal combustion engines.
- The Tractor - FROELICH TRACTOR MUSEUMThe Tractor. In 1892 in the tiny village in Northeast Iowa, John Froelich (1849 -1933) invented the first successful gasoline-powered engine that could be driven backwards and forwards. The word “tractor” wasn’t used in those days, but that’s what it was. At that time, steam-powered engines were used to thresh wheat.
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