Editing Continuous track (section)

=== Endless Railway by John Fowler (1858) ===
In August 1858, more than two years after the end of the [[Crimean War]], [[John Fowler (agricultural engineer)|John Fowler]] filed British Patent No.&nbsp;1948 on another form of "Endless Railway". In his illustration of the invention, Fowler used a pair of wheels of equal diameter on each side of his vehicle, around which pair of toothed wheels ran a 'track' of eight jointed segments, with a smaller jockey/drive wheel between each pair of wheels, to support the 'track'. Comprising only eight sections, the 'track' sections are essentially 'longitudinal', as&nbsp;in Boydell's initial design.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.users.waitrose.com/~brbeamond/Burrell-Boydell%20Tractor.pdf |title=Burrell-Boydell Tractor |access-date=2013-09-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002140930/http://www.users.waitrose.com/~brbeamond/Burrell-Boydell%20Tractor.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-02 }}</ref> Fowler's arrangement is a precursor to the multi-section caterpillar track in which a relatively large number of short 'transverse' treads are used, as proposed by Sir George Caley in 1825,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.users.waitrose.com/~brbeamond/Sir%20George%20Caley's%20Continuous%20Track.pdf |title=Patent No. 5260 A New Locomotive Apparatus |first=Georg |last=Caley |year=1825 |access-date=2013-09-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121194507/http://www.users.waitrose.com/~brbeamond/Sir%20George%20Caley's%20Continuous%20Track.pdf |archive-date=2017-11-21 }}</ref> rather than a small number of relatively long 'longitudinal' treads.

Further to Fowler's patent of 1858, in 1877, a Russian, [[Fyodor Blinov]], created a tracked vehicle called "[[wagon]] moved on endless rails".<ref name=blinov>{{cite web |url=http://ricolor.org/history/eng/prm/blinov/ |title=Изобретатель трактора (Ф. Блинов) |trans-title=The inventor of the tractor (F.Blinov) |first1=D. |last1=Lozovoi |first2=A. |last2=Lozova |work=Russia in Colours |language=ru |access-date=2011-08-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727215339/http://ricolor.org/history/eng/prm/blinov/ |archive-date=2011-07-27 }}</ref> It lacked self-propulsion and was pulled by horses. Blinov received a patent for his "wagon" in 1878. From 1881 to 1888 he developed a steam-powered caterpillar-tractor. This self-propelled crawler was successfully tested and featured at a farmers' exhibition in 1896.<ref name=blinov/>