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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 shovel or excavator.[citation needed] Steam shovels played a major role in public works in the 19th and early 20th century, being key to the construction of railroads and the Panama Canal. The development of simpler, cheaper diesel, gasoline and electric shovels caused steam shovels to fall out of favor in the 1930s.
A steamshovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil. It is the earliest type of...
Marion Power Shovel Company was an American firm that designed, manufactured and sold steamshovels, power shovels, blast hole drills, excavators, and...
the other) descend from steamshovels and perform similar work, they are not classified as shovels.[citation needed] Hand shovels have been adapted for...
Mike Mulligan and His SteamShovel (ISBN 0-590-75803-9) is a children's book by Virginia Lee Burton. First published in 1939, it features Mike Mulligan...
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...
tracks or wheels, being an evolution of the steamshovel (which itself evolved into the power shovel when steam was replaced by diesel and electric power)...
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presented an immediate challenge to the steamshovel (and its diesel and electric powered descendant, the power shovel. Much more efficient than even the largest...
railroad-mounted steamshovels were purchased, 77 from Bucyrus-Erie, and 25 from the Marion Power Shovel Company. These were joined by enormous steam-powered cranes...
backwards, rather than lifting it with a forward motion like a person shovelling, a steamshovel, or a bulldozer. The buckets on some backhoes may be reconfigured...
Children were left in a room with toys, including a greatly desirable steamshovel, the forbidden toy. Upon leaving the room, the experimenter told one-half...
(September 20, 1813 – November 13, 1839) was an American inventor of the steamshovel. Otis received a patent for his creation on February 24, 1839. In 1839...
Steamshovel Press is a zine devoted to conspiracy theories and parapolitics. The magazine was started in 1992. It was founded and previously published...
build a better steamshovel in the 19th century. Once capitalized and incorporated in 1884, Marion SteamShovel (later Marion Power Shovel) became the leading...
The International Brotherhood of SteamShovel and Dredgemen was a labor union representing workers involved in excavations in the United States, Canada...
Shovel Knight is a platform video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo...
excavated by steamshovels, most made by Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee. Dozens of spoils trains took the spoil from the shovels to the...
operating a steamshovel. Minnie appears on a cart pulled by Pluto; she is selling box lunches to the workers. After he uses the steamshovel to retrieve...
Film Year Title Role Notes 1991 Mike Mulligan and His SteamShovel Boy The Boy Who Cried Bitch Robert 1997 Camp Stories Abby 1999 American Pie Jim Levenstein...
year he bought a steamshovel, becoming a pioneer of the new technology. He painted "W.A. Bechtel Co." on the side of the steamshovel, effectively establishing...
hard-boiled." Lester, responding to a reporter's questions, said his steamshovel operators and the railroad workers were members of their respective unions...
cut were to be fed into the saw mill to provide planks for seating. A steamshovel located in Carrboro, North Carolina was at the ready to be used once...
Conn.: American Publishing Company. p. 212. Marsh Jr., Robert (1920). SteamShovel Mining. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 136. Grimes, William. "Taking Swings...