Talk:Westinghouse Farm Engine
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the company started about 1835 by George Westinghouse (senior); and by the way he was the father of George Westinghouse Jr who invented the air brake used on all trains and started the modern Westinghouse Corporation ( AC electrical power distribution etc).
in 1840 George Westinghouse perfected his threshing machine
in 1921 the company was still in business furnishing thresher parts.
This catalog shows the following :
the Westinghouse Improved Grain Thresher the Westinghouse self feeder the Westinghouse water tank and fuel wagon(for steam engines) the Westinghouse Clover Huller combined with grain thresher the Westinghouse straw-preserving rye thresher the Westinghouse bean thresher and cow pea huller The Westinghouse traction engine and portable engine the Westinghouse gasoline engine ( 4 to 50 horse power )portable, skid and stationary. single cylinder (some vertical and some horizontal) And as a final note, the Westinghouse 18 hp traction engine shows automotive type steering ( no chains) and also shaft drive ( not the belt drive shown in your picture). steam engines made in 4,6,10,12,15, and 18 hp. The Westinghouse portable engine run by Henry Ford when he was about 19 years old is probably still at the Henry Ford Museum.
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- The paragraph beginning with "Westinghouse steam engines of the era had vertical boilers" is creative and has non-PD content. And seriously: "related content"? "Read more at $URL"? Um, no. I don't object to the restoration of the PD content in the article above. MER-C 06:36, 25 May 2012 (UTC)