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  • Events
    • APPLE FEST
    • Glidden Revival Antique Car Tour - September
    • APPLE DUMPLINGS DAYS -September
    • Rural History Day- Early Surgery and Medicine
    • Western Maryland Farm Toy Show - November
    • Event Photos
  • Museum Hours & Admission
    • Board of Directors
  • 19th-Century Historic Village
  • Early Roads Transportation Museum
  • Farm and Home Life Museums
    • Early Road Building
    • Mt. Tabor Church Worship Seating Reconstruction Project
  • Make a Donation
  • Membership
    • Volunteer
  • Plan Your Visit
    • Activities
      • Hands on History
      • Potato Planting for Kids
  • Contact Us

EARLY ROAD BUILDING

In the 19th century, rock crushers proved valuable in laying roads to a growing nation.    The purpose was to put down a rock surface on the roads so wagons wouldn’t get stuck in the mud. Crushers needed power to operate and in the early years of our nation that power was provided by a transmission that converts the tractor's engine power into speed and torique.


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CLIMAX ORE CRUSHER CIRCA 1890 CLIMAX ROAD MACHINE COMPANY
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Advertisement in the February 26, 1910 "Engineering Record"
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