Jerome I. Case started up the Racine Threshing Machine Works in 1842, and in 1869 produced the first steam tractor which only used the engine stationery once at the farm and had to be pulled by horses. Case launched their first Tractor, the Titan, in 1910 and in 1929 introduced its first crawler tractor. Case was bought out in 1964 and then sold to Tenneco, and they bought out British David Brown tractors in 1972, and then Tenneco bought International Harvester in 1984.