A steam-powered, self-propelled vehicle built to haul heavy loads on roads, work agricultural fields, or provide stationary belt power, replacing the draught horse as the main power source for farm work and haulage before the internal-combustion tractor took over. Many also drove threshing machines and other implements through a belt run off a large flywheel. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced Year OriginThomas Aveling built the first commercially successful traction engine around 1859 by fitting a portable steam engine with a driving chain to make it self-propelled; regarded as the father of the traction engine, Aveling design and the standard form that developed through the 1860s remained largely unchanged for roughly the following sixty years. 1 Classification
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the steam traction engine is the direct mechanical predecessor of the gasoline and diesel farm tractor
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1. Traction Engine (Wikipedia)
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They revolutionized agriculture and road haulage at a time when the only alternative prime mover was the draught horse.
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A traction engine is a steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.
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