Energy Industries' highspeed reciprocating compressors: Product line evolved from Holt's purchase of Chicago Pneumatic high-speed balanced-opposed compressor line in 1980

摘要

The Holt business tradition goes back to the mid-1880s when Benjamin Holt produced his first horse-drawn, link-belt combined harvester. This began a tradition of invention and innovation that endured for generations. Holt produced some of the earliest steam traction engines, as well as the first successful track-type tractor, referred to as the "caterpillar." Holt moved the growing business to Peoria, Illinois and, in 1925, merged his company with the Best Tractor Co. to form the Caterpillar Tractor Co.