The earliest modern tractor features are the features found on todays new tractor. Don't really matter who came up with what when, what matters is what's out there today. What I consider the first "modern" tractor I got to operate was a Farmall 560. Good hydraulics, IPTO, diesel, power steering and a high/low shift on the go. But by todays standards the hydraulics are nothing to brag about, the fast hitch died, no cab, not enough remotes, no shuttle shift or power shift transmission. No heat, no air and no stereo! No GPS or auto steer either.
The who had what is really moot. A lot of the innovative things of yesteryear came from now long gone companies like AC, Cockshutt and IH. Yea I know, the IH name is still out there but just the name.
Like all this ado about the quad track. Heck Cat played with a quad with steel tracks in the 60's and dropped it because the need disappeared. And a skidder company (can't remember the name) had a steel tracked quad skidder out before the CaseIH came out and long before the new JD. A lot of the things we have on tractors today and even most of the older ones came from other sources. The turbo was over 50 years old before Cat first put one on a tractor. The forerunner to the power shift was the automatic tranny in cars available in 40 or 41. Sure not the same but the concept came from there. Hydraulics were nothing new when they were first added to tractors. About the only things that I can think of that was tractor specific was the basic tractor itself, rear list system and the PTO. The steam engine was already widely used before the first tractor was build as was belt power. Same with the IC engine and diesel.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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