The Technical World Magazine, Volume 6Technical World Company, 1907 |
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Page 17
... steam power has proven in most cases an expensive luxury and often a signal failure . A motor for farm use must combine lightness and high tractive power . Ninety per cent of its work is over soft , plowed fields , where it must THE ...
... steam power has proven in most cases an expensive luxury and often a signal failure . A motor for farm use must combine lightness and high tractive power . Ninety per cent of its work is over soft , plowed fields , where it must THE ...
Page 19
... steam . PLOWING A FURROW , PLANTING POTATOES , AND COVERING THE. All machinery is encased in a steel , dust proof covering , protecting it from the all - present dust of farm work . This cov- ering removed , the heart of the machine ...
... steam . PLOWING A FURROW , PLANTING POTATOES , AND COVERING THE. All machinery is encased in a steel , dust proof covering , protecting it from the all - present dust of farm work . This cov- ering removed , the heart of the machine ...
Page 20
... Steam engines had proved too heavy for the soft land being plowed , and here the agriculturist expected to mire the internal combustion motor , but he signally failed . For a plowing test among horses , steam . power and the gasoline ...
... Steam engines had proved too heavy for the soft land being plowed , and here the agriculturist expected to mire the internal combustion motor , but he signally failed . For a plowing test among horses , steam . power and the gasoline ...
Page 21
... steam cost highest , being slightly over four dollars per acre . Horses were next at forty cents an acre less and last was gasoline costing but slightly over half that of horses and not half so much as steam . In the case of the ...
... steam cost highest , being slightly over four dollars per acre . Horses were next at forty cents an acre less and last was gasoline costing but slightly over half that of horses and not half so much as steam . In the case of the ...
Page 32
... steam- ers plying between New Orleans and Coatzacoalcos and between Salina Cruz and San Francisco . The Tehuantepec Railroad proposes to compete for all traffic between our own Atlantic ports and the Orient ; also for the trade between ...
... steam- ers plying between New Orleans and Coatzacoalcos and between Salina Cruz and San Francisco . The Tehuantepec Railroad proposes to compete for all traffic between our own Atlantic ports and the Orient ; also for the trade between ...
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