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    A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil engineering and surface mining. It was invented in 1904, and presented an immediate challenge...
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    Spider silk (redirect from Dragline silk)
    transmission channel for male vibratory courtship signals, while webs and draglines provide a substrate for female sex pheromones. Observations of male spiders...
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    preservation. The group Friends of St Aidan's BE1150 Dragline claims that it is the largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe. The group holds...
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    (lit. Great Bear) at Black Thunder Coal Mine, Wyoming, is the largest dragline excavator currently in use in North America and the third largest ever...
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    Sundew was a large electrically powered dragline excavator used in mining operations in Rutland and Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. It was the...
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  • Dragline Channel is a man-made channel in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Originally built by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1930s, it connects...
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  • Dragline is the debut studio album by the American grunge band Paw. It was released in 1993 through A&M Records. It sold around 80,000 copies. The single...
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  • of their leader, Dragline. When the two have a boxing match, Luke is severely outmatched but refuses to acquiesce. Eventually, Dragline stops the fight...
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    first dragline excavator. In 1960s the plant designed and manufactured draglines with booms 90–100 m long. Now[when?] more than 200 walking draglines are...
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    disaster. 1250-B/W and 1260-W walking draglines, with buckets between 33 and 45 cu yd (25 and 34 m3). 5-W walking dragline, with a 5-cubic-yard (3.8 m3) bucket...
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    Big Muskie (category Draglines)
    Big Muskie was a dragline excavator built by Bucyrus-Erie and owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (formerly a division of American Electric Power),...
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    binary-configuration limbs with much greater dexterity.[citation needed] Dragline excavators are extremely large and heavy machines used in mining and civil...
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    action, with modern excavators pulling their buckets toward them like a dragline rather than pushing them away to fill them the way the first powered shovels...
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    appeared in more than 100 film and television productions. He played "Dragline" in Cool Hand Luke (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting...
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  • to: Odd Ball (comic strip), a British comic strip Oddball (dragline excavator), a dragline excavator in St Aidan's, West Yorkshire, England Oddball (film)...
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    the largest land-based mobile machines ever built, only exceeded by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators. It was scrapped in 1992, after receiving extreme...
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    sold steam shovels, power shovels, blast hole drills, excavators, and dragline excavators for use in the construction and mining industries. The company...
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    before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk (or 'dragline') to whatever it is standing on. This dragline provides a mechanical aid to jumping, including...
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  • was one of the largest land vehicles ever built, exceeded only by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators. The shovel originally started work with Southwestern...
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    different forms of heavy equipment, the historic walking power shovel or dragline excavator that began to appear already early in the 20th century, or the...
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    Wyoming's total coal production. Black Thunder's dragline excavator Ursa Major is the biggest working dragline in North America and the third largest ever...
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    open-cut and longwall mines. Mining at this scale requires the use of draglines, trucks, conveyors, hydraulic jacks, and shearers. The coal mining industry...
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  • Charles Bryan, and drummer Peter Fitch. They released two studio albums – Dragline and Death To Traitors, the B-side and outtake collection Keep The Last...
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    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 power...
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    typical strand of garden spider silk has a diameter of about 0.003 mm ... Dragline silk (about .00032 inch (.008 mm) in Nephila) Smith, D.J.; Gaffney, E.A...
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  • for moving bulk material A type of chain shift in linguistics Part of a dragline excavator Chain used to slow a ship during a ship launching This disambiguation...
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    dBA) represent some of the noisiest equipment in underground coal mines. Dragline oilers, dozer operators, and welders using air arcing were occupations...
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    Karatzas, C.N.; Lazaris, A.; Richman, A.; Brandle, J. (2004). "Spider dragline silk proteins in transgenic tobacco leaves: accumulation and field production"...
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  • purchased by Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company. P&H shovels and draglines were originally available with prime-mover options including a Waukesha...
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    Araneus ventricosus is able to produce flagelliform silk, also known as dragline silk, which has been found to be the most elastic of all spider silk types...
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