A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil. It is the earliest type of...
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Marion Power Shovel Company was an American firm that designed, manufactured and sold steam shovels, power shovels, blast hole drills, excavators, and...
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His Steam Shovel (ISBN 0-590-75803-9) is a children's book by Virginia Lee Burton. First published in 1939, it features Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel...
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the other) descend from steam shovels and perform similar work, they are not classified as shovels.[citation needed] Hand shovels have been adapted for...
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A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered...
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Mr. Squiggle (redirect from Bill the Steam Shovel)
tells knock-knock jokes. Bill the Steam Shovel, who likes to tell corny jokes (often in the form of riddles) and belch steam (talcum powder) out of his "nose"...
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Excavator (redirect from Front shovel)
tracks or wheels, being an evolution of the steam shovel (which itself evolved into the power shovel when steam was replaced by diesel and electric power)...
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie. In 1997, it was renamed Bucyrus International...
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(September 20, 1813 – November 13, 1839) was an American inventor of the steam shovel. Otis received a patent for his creation on February 24, 1839. In 1839...
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aircraft Steam boat Steam car Steam crane Steam power during the Industrial Revolution Steam shovel Steam tractor Steam tricycle Steam turbine Still engine...
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build a better steam shovel in the 19th century. Once capitalized and incorporated in 1884, Marion Steam Shovel (later Marion Power Shovel) became the leading...
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presented an immediate challenge to the steam shovel and its diesel and electric powered descendant, the power shovel. Much more efficient than even the largest...
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Children were left in a room with toys, including a greatly desirable steam shovel, the forbidden toy. Upon leaving the room, the experimenter told one-half...
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railroad-mounted steam shovels were purchased, 77 from Bucyrus-Erie, and 25 from the Marion Power Shovel Company. These were joined by enormous steam-powered cranes...
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List of Thomas & Friends characters (redirect from Ned the Steam Shovel)
Caterpillar D9 Ned 19 A steam shovel who works for the Sodor Construction Company. Brownings steam shovel Isobella 22 A yellow steam lorry who works for the...
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backwards, rather than lifting it with a forward motion like a person shovelling, a steam shovel, or a bulldozer. The buckets on some backhoes may be reconfigured...
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Steamshovel Press (redirect from Steam Shovel Press)
Steamshovel Press is a zine devoted to conspiracy theories and parapolitics. The magazine was started in 1992. It was founded and previously published...
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The International Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredgemen was a labor union representing workers involved in excavations in the United States, Canada...
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Shovel Knight is a platform video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo...
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bought his own steam shovel, becoming a pioneer of the new technology. He painted "W.A. Bechtel Co." on the side of the steam shovel, effectively establishing...
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shared many similarities. Steam shovels were mounted on railroad chassis. Temporary rail tracks were laid by workers where the shovel was expected to work...
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Early in the 20th century, four large gas compressing stations and a steam shovel factory were located in Waynesburg. Waynesburg is named for General "Mad"...
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and at last, he approaches and climbs onto the teeth of an enormous steam shovel calling to it "Mother, Mother! Here I am, Mother!". However, after it...
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Conn.: American Publishing Company. p. 212. Marsh Jr., Robert (1920). Steam Shovel Mining. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 136. Grimes, William. "Taking Swings...
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Film Year Title Role Notes 1991 Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Boy The Boy Who Cried Bitch Robert 1997 Camp Stories Abby 1999 American Pie Jim Levenstein...
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excavated by steam shovels, most made by Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee. Dozens of spoils trains took the spoil from the shovels to the...
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The Marion Steam Shovel, also known as the Le Roy Steam Shovel, is a historic Model 91 steam shovel manufactured by the Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge...
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illustrated seven children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939) and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. She...
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Railroad, the Hoosac and the Champion. He also built two 25-horsepower steam shovel for Norman Carmine Munson to use in filling the Boston Back Bay. On his...
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the school's class president. After high school, Dempster worked as a steam shovel operator on the Panama Canal project, excavating the canal's Miraflores...
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