Caterpillar was founded in 1925 when two California based tractor companies merged. The name Caterpillar, however , dates back to the early 1900s when Benjamin crawler with wide, thick tracks instead of wheels, These tracks prevented the machine from sinking into California’s deep, rich soil, which was impassable when wet, The new farm tractor crept along the farmland in such a way that one observer said it “crawled like a caterpillar”