eighteen-ninties
1889 Daniel Best and Benjamin Holt each introduce their own steam traction engine
1890 Best patents his steam harvester
1892 Holt Manufacturing Co. incorporates in Stockton, California
1894 Best adapts his steam logger for use in the woods
1894 Best offers engines from 2hp to 200 hp for irrigation, dairies, and boats
nineteen-hundreds
1903 Holt's wheel-type steamer No. 77 is built
1904 Holt's first steam track-type tractor is field-tested
1906 Holt's first gas track-type tractor tests before crowd
1908 Holt's first production steam-powered crawler - No. 122 is built
nineteen-tens
1915 Holt's "Caterpillar" track-type tractors are used by the Allies in WWI
1918 World War I ends
nineteen-twenties
1923 RG LeTourneau builds first self-propelled telescoping scraper
1925 Holt Mfg Co. & CL Best Tractor merge to form Caterpillar Tractor Co. read story
1927 LeTourneau builds scrapers for Henry J. Kaiser's Cuban Hwy project read story
1929 Stock Market Crash - starts the Great Depression |
