It’s easy to get frustrated with the pace of innovation—especially these days, when we’re told that electric cars are the future, even as the technology behind them continues to develop to meet its full potential. But it’s important to remember that internal-combustion engines of today are the result of the same process, which led to plenty of false starts and engineering dead ends way back when. One of those dead ends was hidden away for 70 years, and it’s fascinating. It’s a 25-horsepower single-cylinder “hit-and-miss” engine built by International Harvester in 1915. According to a video recently posted on the YouTube channel Antique Tractor Life, it is one of just…
Just Three of These International Harvester Hit-and-Miss Engines Exist Today
