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Covers a century of earth moving equipment developments. The Caterpillar track-tractor facilitated massive road building projects and major infrastructure projects like dams, canals, and waterways.
Euclid Earthmoving Equipment, 1924 to 1968, examines the company's equipment origins, starting with the Euclid Crane & Hoist Company, and The Euclid Road Machinery Company, right on through the years General Motors controlled the company as Euclid Division. All of the company's major equipment product lines are covered, including rear-dump and bottom-dump haulers, scrapers, crawler dozers, wheel loaders, and blade-veyors. Also includes numerous military offerings, prototypes, and experimental designs, some of which have never been seen in publications before. Contains tables for machine introductions and production numbers. From the serious equipment historian, to the heavy equipment enthusiast, Euclid is packed with tons of the "green-iron" for your enjoyment.
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Covers the 1950s through the present.
An inside look at the factories that forge the giant machines of today's mining, logging, and construction industries.
Now an industry giant and a legend among American manufacturers, Caterpillar first got its name from Holt Manufacturing Company’s remarkable tractor creation of 1905. What followed was the Caterpillar century, an era of engineering revolutions and world-changing earthmovers. Eric Orlemann serves as tour guide through this time of American mechanical know-how and muscle, offering us a rare close-up look at the technology of Caterpillar’s most important equipment innovations, then and now. Packed with contemporary photographs, archival images, and information on state-of-the-art equipment design, Caterpillar Century traces the evolution of this icon of industry from its emergence in 1905 to its making of modern day heavy-equipment marvels and development of future design prototypes.
In the history of heavy equipment development, no single man’s name is more respected or revered as that of R. G. LeTourneau. Robert Gilmour LeTourneau is considered by many to be the dean of high-speed mobile earthmoving equipment. His designs of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s laid the fundamental groundwork for many of the earthmoving machines we see on a daily basis. Self-propelled, rubber tired scrapers, bulldozing blades, and rippers were all conceived under his engineering genius in the quest for moving material at the lowest-cost-per-yard. The time period of 1921 to 1953 saw many of R. G. LeTourneau’s most important heavy-equipment introductions, such as the Carryall and the Tournapull, and the initial development of the electric drive wheel. This first volume of fantastic machine creations covers the early years up until the sale of the company to Westinghouse in 1953. Standard production, specials, and experimental machines in rare archival images, some in print for the very first time, help showcase what made R. G. LeTourneau so important in the heavy equipment industry.
This colour photo history features the giant equipment used in the mining and excavation industries. Magnificent colour photos of shovels, draglines, and excavators, but giant rear- and bottom-dump trucks, track dozers, graders, and hydraulic excavators are also featured. More than half of the approximately 24 manufacturers whose machinery is featured are North American.