Tractor pinata

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For other specific forms tractors take, see Tractor unit. The word tractor was taken from Latin, being the agent noun of trahere “to pull”. In most cases this was achieved by fitting a sprocket on the end of the crankshaft, and running a chain from this to a larger sprocket on the rear axle. These experiments met with mixed success. The first half of the 1860s was a period of great experimentation but by the end of the decade the standard form of the traction engine had evolved and changed little over the next sixty years. It was widely adopted for agricultural use. The first tractors were steam-powered plowing engines.

They were used in pairs, placed on either side of a field to haul a plow back and forth between them using a wire cable. The first gasoline powered tractors were built in Illinois, by John Charter combining single cylinder Otto engines with a Rumley Steam engine chasis, in 1889. Sons are credited with producing and selling the first oil-engined tractor in Britain, invented by Herbert Akroyd Stuart. In 1897, it was bought by Mr. Locke-King, the first recorded British tractor sale. The first commercially successful light-weight petrol-powered general purpose tractor was built by Dan Albone, a British inventor in 1901.