A LIFE IN OLD IRON: C.H. WENDEL, 1939-2019
If there’s one name everyone in the old iron community knows, it’s C.H. Wendel. The author of some three dozen books covering the vast landscape of agricultural technology of yore, Charles Harry Wendel, or Chuck, as he would introduce himself, is best known in our corner of the world for his landmark 1983 publication, American Gasoline Engines Since 1872.
Today, we can look up any patent ever issued in the U.S. simply by going). When Wendel compiled his seminal work on gas engines that resource didn’t exist. Instead, he conducted thorough and time-consuming research scouring the pages of the Patent Office Gazette, of which he had a complete collection covering the years 1872 to 1975.
