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A hit-and-miss engine is a type of four-stroke internal combustion engine that is controlled by a governor to operate a set speed.

It was conceived in the late 19th century and produced by various companies from the 1890s through approximately the 1940s.

The name comes from the speed control on these engines: they are designed to fire ("hit") only when operating at or below a set speed, and to cycle without firing ("miss") when they exceed their set speed.

This is as compared to the "throttle governed" method of speed control.

The sound made when the engine is running without a load is a distinctive "POP whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh POP" as the engine fires and then coasts until the speed decreases and it fires again to maintain its average speed.

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction.

Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, but nowadays a great variety of tasks.

Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised.

An antique ("old", "ancient") is a collectable item, at least 100 years old.

It is collected or desirable because of its age, beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features.

It is an object that represents a previous era or time period in human society.

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products.

Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be used.

The ideal thermodynamic cycle used to analyze this process is called the Rankine cycle.

In the cycle, water is heated and transforms into steam within a boiler operating at a high pressure.

When expanded through pistons or turbines, mechanical work is done.

The reduced-pressure steam is then exhausted to the atmosphere, or condensed and pumped back into the boiler.

The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

The scope of collecting is unlimited, which is expressed in the hyperbolic expression: "If something exists, somebody somewhere collects them.".