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Agricultural Steam Engines:

Agricultural steam engines are of two types, portable engines that required a team of horses to pull them, or the self-propelled traction engines that traveled from farm to farm on their own power. These machines powered other machines such as saws or threshing machines that knocked the grain off straw, then cleaned and separated the chaff.


Portable Steam Engine, About 1857

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Portable Steam Engine, 1881

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Steam Traction Engine, About 1886

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Steam Traction Engine, 1888

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Steam Traction Engine, 1890

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Steam Traction Engine, 1916

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