Meet the American who invented the gas-powered tractor, entrepreneur John Froelich, helped feed the world
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Meet John Froelich, the oldest son of German immigrants, who was born in Iowa in 1849. The grain mill operator tinkered away on a gasoline traction, the tractor, that changed global agriculture.
And he helped feed the world in ways that Bob Geldof, Boy George and a galaxy of other celebrities connected to the holiday hit "Do They Know It's Christmas?" — including global community efforts to feed the world much, much later in the 1980s — could only imagine. "He had a very creative and inventive sort of mind. He just wanted to make life better for everybody." Froelich, Iowa, an unincorporated village, still appears on maps today. "Every year at harvest time, he dragged a crew of hired hands and a heavy steam-powered thresher through Iowa and the Dakotas." "Froelich, his team and his gas-powered machine threshed 72,000 bushels in just 53 days." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
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