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The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For another 66 years it was the J. I. Case Company, and was often called simply Case.
Case IH history began when, in 1842, Jerome Case founded Racine Threshing Machine Works on the strength of his innovative thresher. In 1869 Case expanded into the steam engine business and, by 1886, Case was the world's largest manufacturer of steam engines. [citation needed] The company's founder died in 1891 at the age of 72.
Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819 – December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines. He founded the J. I. Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation . [ 1 ]
In 1909 the Pierce Engine Company was reorganized with J. I. Case Company investors as the Pierce Motor Company. On August 4, 1910, Pierce Motor Company was absorbed by the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company and the Pierce-Racine became the Case automobile. Case automobiles were produced until 1927. [1] [2]
~Hagerstown Steam Engine & Machine Co. ~Harrisburg Car Mfg. Co. Harrison Machine Works (Jumbo) Heilman Machine Works ~Holt Manufacturing Company (became Caterpillar Inc.) ~Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. Huber Manufacturing Co. Illinois Thresher Co. ~Jacob Price ~James Means & Co. John Goodison Thresher Co. Ltd., Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
The origins of Case date to 1842, when Jerome Increase Case (born in 1819) created Racine Threshing Machine Works in Racine, Wisconsin. [4] The company produced its first portable steam engine in 1876, which is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution. [5] In 1957 Case made the 320 Construction King backhoe loader. [6]
In 1801 a Joseph Burrell was found to be advertising "Chaff Engines, Drill Rolls and Drill Machines", items of agricultural equipment, from his foundry on Kings Street Thetford. By 1805 Joseph had joined with his two brothers James and William and were advertising Threshing Machines for sale. In 1817 Charles Burrell was born.
1903: New Holland Machine Company is founded by Abe Zimmerman in New Holland, Pennsylvania 1906: A Belgian mechanic, Leon Claeys, starts to build threshing machines and three years later builds his factory in Zedelgem, Belgium 1907: Ford comes out with a prototype of mass-produced tractor; the Fordson Model F is actually produced 10 years later