Huber Steam Traction Engine
name: label: maker
content: Huber
notes: label: Description
content: This Huber Steam Traction Engine is of a moderate size at twelve tons and 16 feet long-many of its contemporaries weighed as much as 20 tons. It has an 18 horsepower engine. The water tank in the front swings out for repairs, so that the engineer would not have to crawl back into the belly of the machine, and the clutch lever and throttle are located on the same side.
label: Description
content: Huber steam tractors could burn straw or coal; this one took 100 to 150 pounds of coal per hour. This Huber Steam Traction Engine has seen a light workload, and may have been used to power a sawmill.
label: Description
content: A coal-burning steam traction engine would have rumbled and clanked along at two to three miles per hour. It spat thick smoke, cinders, and sparks that could set fire to nearby straw. The machines had a reputation for spooking horses and sending them running, often with wagons still attached.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Amos, Kenneth, and Robert Brandt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.74A35
label: catalog number
content: 74A35
label: accession number
content: 310826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tractor, Steam, Huber
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: length: 4 3/4 ft x 14 1/4 ft; 1.4478 m x 4.3434 m