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100 YEARS AGO(1911)
Cecil Harris, one of the progressive and extensive farmers of the Devon neighborhood, has purchased a 33-horsepower gasoline traction engine that will be used extensively in his farm work.
The engine was ordered through the Armstrong Hardware Company and will be here within a few days. Mr. Harris has planned a number of uses for the engine when it arrives, among which are to grade roads, plow fields and supply the power for much of the farm work. But few of this class of engine are now in use in the eastern part of Kansas, though they are rapidly coming into use on the larger wheat ranches of the western part of the state.
Full line of fine staple and fancy groceries, flour, feed, fresh and salt meats. We deliver phone orders promptly. -- Fred McCreedy, 503 S. Margrave. Phone 136.
75 YEARS AGO
(1936)
Chester Greer, city employee, has prepared a very realistic-looking "fireplace" on the stage at Memorial Hall for use at the American Legion's annual Christmas tree event for needy children on Christmas Eve. The fireplace is constructed of pasteboard boxes and is covered with brick-patterned-paper. There is even a doorway in the back of the fireplace through which Old Santa can enter. Mr. Greer also is repainting Santa and his sleigh and reindeer which last year were placed on top of Memorial Hall. This year they will be placed over the old water works custodian's quarters on Tower Hill at the north of the towers.
The Diamond-Catt Community Club will meet Friday night. Everyone is to bring candy.
Richard Duncan, rural Garland, was in town yesterday.
Claud Fuller, of Devon, was in town yesterday.
50 YEARS AGO
(1961)
Photo caption: "Students of John Radell's sixth grade class used puppets to help show their parents what they knew about weather is a science program presented at Winfield Scott School. In the photo are Linda Edgar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Edgar; June Leslie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.M.
Steam Traction Engine - News
“When I was just a boy of 5 or 6 years old,” Lépine recalled, “I saw a 1940s-era cowboy movie, black and white of course, and there was a scene of a giant traction engine steaming through town pulling a wagon. I don't remember the name of the movie but
Cecil Harris, one of the progressive and extensive farmers of the Devon neighborhood, has purchased a 33-horsepower gasoline traction engine that will be used extensively in his farm work. The engine was ordered through the Armstrong Hardware Company
KNOWING how precarious the Pakistan Railways position is, I suggest we go back to the steam engine traction system which has proved to be an extremely reliable mode of traction system for the last 150 years and more. They are easy to run and maintain.
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When the first steam road engines appeared during the 18th century, it is not difficult to imagine the effect they had on the horses and pedestrians who were used to having the streets to themselves.
The traction engine is the oldest type of mechanically-propelled vehicle. The first was built in 1769 by Jules Cugnot, a French army officer, for towing guns. The engine had a speed of 2Ω mph, but was too unreliable for practical use. Eventually the boiler exploded, killing the inventor.
In Great Britain, various steam traction engines were built in the latter part of the 18th century, but the first to actually run was Richard Trevithick’s in 1803. This attained a speed of 9 mph, but the roads of the time were so bad that the vehicle had to be abandoned.
In 1870 came the Aveling all-gear-driven traction engine, from which all later types were developed. Though inventors were already dreaming of cars propelled by internal combustion engines, steam road engines were in use for another half-century.
In an age when we are used to swifter forms of transport, the traction engine still holds a fascination among enthusiasts. The pictures on this page were taken at a steam rally which attracted a large crowd of eager spectators.
Up Close and Personal with a Saw Bench Blade (steam traction engine-driven saw at Beamish Museum): 
@ The one I was in this summer at the steam traction engine rally (ahem) did.
@ for pure boyhood geekery I'd be keen on the return of the steam traction engine to everyday farm life!