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| September 6, 1892 -- The first gasoline-powered tractor, manufactured by John Froelich, of Froelich, Iowa, was shipped to Langford,S.D., where it was employed in threshing for approximately 2 months. It had a vertical single- cylinder gasoline engine mounted on wooden beams and drove a J. I. Case threshing machine. Froelich formed the Waterloo Gasoline Tractor Engine Company, which was later acquired by the John Deere Plow Company. |
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