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John Froelich Tractor & Ertl Prestige Series Replica
John Froelich revolutionized farming with the first internal combustion engine powered tractor and Ertl replicated it in 1:16th scale.
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Key Moments in this Episode:
0:00 The Hot Cylinder Engine Began with Steam
0:49 Beasts of Burden Were Replaced on the Farm
1:46 Enter Petroleum
1:48 John Froelich Enters World Destined to Revolutionize…
2:56 Froelich Invents Gasoline Traction Engine
4:19 Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company
4:37 John Froelich Leaves Waterloo Gas Engine Co Before His Design Built the Waterloo Boy Tractor
5:17 John Deere Company Buys Waterloo Boy Tractor Company
5:50 John Froelich Continues to Invent Many Day To Day Items
6:58 1:16th Scale Prestige Series John Froelich Tractor by Ertl Product Review
13:58 What to do Next

John Froelich entered the world on November 24, 1849 in Giard, Iowa. Born to a German Johannes Heinrich Froelich. His father owned a farm and operated a grain elevator near Froelich, Iowa and ran a threshing operation in Langford, South Dakota.

John Froelich was fascinated by steam-driven machinery and farm implements. He also worked on them and understood their weaknesses.

In 1890 Froelich purchased a gasoline internal combustion engine from the Van Duzen Engine Works in Cincinnati, Ohio, to run his grain elevator.

While working with the engine at his elevator John got the idea of using a gasoline engine to power a traction engine. In 1892 Froelich mounted a single-cylinder Van Duzen engine on a Robinson chassis with a traction system of his own design and thus created the very first internal combustion-powered tractor that moved forward and backward and could also power a threshing machine.

Froelich’s assistant, William Mann, helped John transport the machine by rail to their South Dakota operation and proceeded to use it to power their J.I. Case threshing machine through 72,000 bushels of grain in 52 days. A record amount of grain in a short time.

In 1893 a group of investors backed Froelich in forming the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company. This was a disappointment to John because only four of Froelich’s tractors were built.

In 1895 the company became the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company and went to work building small stationary gas engines. These engines were used for pumping water and powering grain elevators.

John Froelich soon left the company and the Waterloo Company changed hands more than once in the early 1900s, but eventually began to produce the “Waterloo Boy” gas engine farm tractors, a design much like the one John Froelich brought to the company more than a decade before. By 1918, Waterloo Boy had produced three models of the tractor, the LA, R, and N models with over 8,000 tractors sold.

In 1918, The John Deere Company in Moline made a bid of $2.2 million dollars to acquire the Waterloo Boy Tractor Company, thus taking on the most successful modern tractor company of its time, and all of this built off of John Froelich’s original design for the gasoline internal combustion traction engine.

John Froelich went on from his early tractor-building endeavor to create engines at the Novelty Iron Work in Dubuque, and then worked with his brother Gottlieb in manufacturing before moving to St. Paul.

John Froelich was a life-long inventor, credited with such things as a washing machine, dish washer and dryer, a mechanical corn picker, and the first air conditioner that later became the Carrier Air Conditioning Company.

John Froelich changed the farmers way of life, and the way farmers go about their day down on the farm. He is remembered today with a festival in his hometown.

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