SouthBendModel34
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2004
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
In the interest of starting what I hope will be a lively and good-spirited debate, I ask "Who Invented the "Caterpillar" Track?
Asquith, for whom I have nothing but the greatest respect, recently wrote the following regarding a British Hornsby steam-powered "caterpillar" tractor:
ASME Publication Lombard Steam Log Hauler
Now, having posted this admitted "troll", I'm gonna duck and run from what I'm sure is going to be a very learned and academic debate!!!!
John Ruth
Whose mother was from Patten, Maine
Asquith, for whom I have nothing but the greatest respect, recently wrote the following regarding a British Hornsby steam-powered "caterpillar" tractor:
I'm gonna reference the following official publication of the ASME, and suggest that the outcome was a gross violation of Warren P. Miller's Patent 23,853 issued May 3, 1859 to cover the endless track, and also Alvin Lombard's Patent 674,737 issued May 4, 1901 covering a steam-powered tracked loghauler for travel on snow and ice!Hornsby supplied a 40 ton version in 1909 to haul coal over a rough 40 mile route in the Yukon. It was a success there, but on its first trial before shipping from the UK it ‘accidentally demolished a house’.
Hornsby sold the patent to Holt in the USA. You may have seen the outcome.
ASME Publication Lombard Steam Log Hauler
Now, having posted this admitted "troll", I'm gonna duck and run from what I'm sure is going to be a very learned and academic debate!!!!
John Ruth
Whose mother was from Patten, Maine