Editing Traction engine (section)

===History===
<!--*[http://www.ruralhistory.org/nof/victorianfarming/show.php History of mechanisation in farming] &ndash; ''Timeline, 1700–1914 ([[Museum of English Rural Life|MERL]])''-->
*[http://www.steam-up.co.uk/traction_engine_history.htm Concise history of the traction engine] &ndash; ''evolution, from earliest experiments to widespread manufacture, plus definitions of the six main types''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100612025329/http://www.steamploughclub.org.uk/history.htm History of steam ploughing]  &ndash; ''particularly covers the very early years as different techniques were tried''
*[http://www.electricscotland.com/agriculture/page26.htm Transactions] of the [[Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland]] &ndash; ''(c.1871) report of trial of Fiskens Steam Cultivation Machinery (a windlass ploughing apparatus) -- including description and diagram''
*[http://www.promotex.ca/articles/cawthon/2006/2006-02-01_article.html History of Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company (Iowa)] &ndash; ''the first gasoline-powered traction engine, and forerunner of the John Deere tractor range''
*[http://www.ranger.demon.co.uk/aveling/aveling.htm "Steam Dinosaur" &ndash;  world's oldest surviving traction engine] ''(plus much history of early Aveling products)''
*[http://www.roadlocosociety.org.uk/ The Road Locomotive Society] &ndash; ''charitable society founded in 1937 for education and research into history of traction engines and portable engines''