Engineering News by You :: Harvest time was hot time for ancestors

Get this weeks

Engineering Trivia Challenge!!

A new set of Questions

EVERY WEEK

Challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia.

Login to EngCom

Save This Page

Harvest time was hot time for ancestors

Saturday was already warm before Piapot’s Dale Friesen literally fired up his Sawyer-Massey steam-powered tractor.
Standing next to the pressurized boiler filled with 177 C water during this weekend’s Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum threshing bee turned a warm day into a sweltering one.
However, people still gathered around his 1900 tractor, which runs perfectly, to witness this antique engineering success in action.

Sunday 20 September, 2009 01:44 PM

< Prev		Next >

[ Back ]

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson