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Translated into English by Leszek Starski, Edited by Jim Floyd and Peter Grimshaw.

The history of techniques is a very important part of the history of our civilisation. Earthmoving and construction equipment allowed men to build our present world. The strength and imagination of people who created and used these machines was extraordinary and magnificent, however this history remains almost unknown.

This highly detailed book intends to describe the most obscure part of this history, for both enthusiastic and still uninitiated reader.

Chapters Include:

• First Dipper Dredgers
• Grab Equipment and its Development
• Drag Dredgers - Besson's Machine of 1578
• Shovel Dipper Dredgers
• Development of Shovels in the 18th Century
• First Application of Steam Power in Earthmoving Machines
• The Otis's Shovel Excavator
• Further Development of Excavators in the USA up to 1880
• Excavators in Europe
• Development of Railroad Shovels in America and the World after 1880
• Full Slew Excavators After 1880
• Grab Excavators and Dredgers
• Scraper Excavators and Dredgers
• Summary of the First Part
• Continuous Operation Dredgers in the Renaissance
• Dutch Push-Plate Dredgers of the 16th and 18th Centuries
• Multi-Bucket Frame Dredgers of the 18th and early 19th Centuries
• Wheel Dredgers of the 17th and 18th Centuries
• British Steam Powered Multi-Bucket Dredgers of the First Half of the 19th Century
• Multi-Bucket Dredgers Outside Britain
• French Dredgers
• American and German Multi-Bucket Dredgers
• Hopper-Ladder Dredgers
• French Multi-Bucket Excavators
• German Multi-Bucket Excavators
• Some American Multi-Bucket Excavators
• Applications of Multi-Bucket Excavators
• Suction Dredgers
• Vacuum Dredgers.

Code No. 010176, ISBN 2950905803