John Froelich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Froelich
American tractor developer
Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1849
Place of Birth: Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 24-May-1933
Profession: inventor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John Froelich
- John Froelich (November 24, 1849 – May 24, 1933) was an American inventor who lived in Froelich, Iowa, a small village in northeast Iowa which was named for his father.
- In 1892, John Froelich developed the first stable gasoline/petrol-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears.John Froelich attended school in Galena, Illinois, and at the College of Iowa.
- There he learned a lot about machinery.
- After college, he decided he would build the very first gasoline-powered tractor to go both forward and reverse. Designed by his blacksmith Will Mann and himself, Froelich was able to build a 16-horsepower (12 kW) tractor that could go both forward and backward by the year 1892.
- After completing the tractor, Froelich and Mann brought it to Langford, South Dakota, where they would connect it to a J.I.
- Case threshing machine, and thresh 72,000 bushels in 52 days.Around 1895, he left Froelich, Iowa, and settled in Marshalltown, Iowa, then moved to St.
- Paul, Minnesota.
- He later developed a new type of clothes-washing machine he named the Froelich Neostyle Washer.There is a museum in the small town of Froelich, Iowa where John Froelich assembled his first gasoline tractor.
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