The world's first caterpillar tractor

All Russian inventors went throughindifference and with difficulty promoted their innovative ideas that were actively picked up by the West and introduced into their economies. The same story happened to mechanic-innovator Fedor Abramovich Blinov, who emerged from the people, who in 1877 developed a self-made tracked tractor that radically changed the agrarian technology not only in Russia, but in the whole world. His invention became the basis of tank construction and was widely used in the technical equipment of heavy industry and space technology, landed on the moon.

The first tracked tractor wasplatform for locomotive moving on endless track-tracks. Fedor Abramovich and called it - the caterpillar car. Tracked belts were made up of small sections and closed, forming a continuous circle. Considering the Russian impassability, this type of transport had advantages both over wheeled vehicles and over trains, since it could move in any direction along any road, as well as along swampy terrain.

The condition of the road for him has novalues, because the caterpillar tractor relies its entire mass on a wide belt, which reduces the amount of pressure on the ground. This unique invention deserved attention, but government officials ignored the nugget inventor without proper attention. Small local merchants tried to attract interest to the invention and even strove to grant a patent for an invention, but this did not go further.

In gratitude for the trouble, the inventordesigned one of them a self-propelled tug and metal agricultural equipment instead of wooden plows and cocks, and the first trailer representing the same crawler tractor, only combined with others in one chain (like a train). Thus, steam transport appeared, having several engines and reaching a power of several dozen horsepower.

True, all these steam engines were not used.on their own. They were developed as an auxiliary mechanism for horse carting. Three years later, F.A. Blinov invents the first oil engine and only now he constructs an absolutely self-propelled tracked tractor.

Money does not develop this complex mechanismthere was no inventor, so Blinov began to engage himself in entrepreneurial activity. He designed fire extinguishing pumps and began to produce them. In wooden Russia, fires happened all the time, so there were many orders for pumps. He invested the proceeds in his main project - an advanced oil tracked tractor.

Over time, he equipped it with a cabin for the mechanic,being simultaneously fireman, driver, braking and stopping the vehicle. Those who showed a genuine interest in his tractors are German businessmen. They are constantly asked to sell them a tracked tractor. But he did not, continuing to improve the device, came to the invention of the internal combustion engine, which made the expensive R. Diesel engines unnecessary.

Later Blinov opened his own production ofrelease of tracked tractors on petroleum engines. After his death, the children did not continue his work. But in Western countries began industrial production of tracked tractors.