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- Gray's Latest Improved Horse Powers Threshing Machines and Wood Sawing Machines, 1891 - As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- 1891
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Gray's Latest Improved Horse Powers Threshing Machines and Wood Sawing Machines, 1891
As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- Sawing Wood Using the Ford Model T Sawmill Conversion, circa 1919 - Innovative users adapted the Ford Model T to their needs. The Ford's rear axle powered many types of belt driven machinery. This photograph taken about 1919 shows men preparing to cut wood on a portable sawmill powered by a Model T.
- circa 1919
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Sawing Wood Using the Ford Model T Sawmill Conversion, circa 1919
Innovative users adapted the Ford Model T to their needs. The Ford's rear axle powered many types of belt driven machinery. This photograph taken about 1919 shows men preparing to cut wood on a portable sawmill powered by a Model T.
- Henry Ford and Bryant Family Using Ford Model A to Power a Sawmill, Bryant Farm, 1903 - One of the appeals of early automobiles, particularly to rural customers, was their versatility as portable power sources. With the aid of a leather belt, the eight-horsepower engine in the original Ford Model A, for example, could run small machines like saws, water pumps, and electrical generators. Uses beyond transportation made cars seem more practical to budget-minded consumers.
- 1903
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Henry Ford and Bryant Family Using Ford Model A to Power a Sawmill, Bryant Farm, 1903
One of the appeals of early automobiles, particularly to rural customers, was their versatility as portable power sources. With the aid of a leather belt, the eight-horsepower engine in the original Ford Model A, for example, could run small machines like saws, water pumps, and electrical generators. Uses beyond transportation made cars seem more practical to budget-minded consumers.
- Catalogue of Gray's Horse Power Machines for Grain Threshing and Wood Sawing, 1898 - As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- 1898
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Catalogue of Gray's Horse Power Machines for Grain Threshing and Wood Sawing, 1898
As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- Philip Rahm, Eagle Machine Works Catalog, Richmond, Virginia, circa 1859 -
- circa 1859
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Philip Rahm, Eagle Machine Works Catalog, Richmond, Virginia, circa 1859