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William Smith Otis (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. Otis excavator. In 1839 William Smith Otis, civil engineer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was issued a US patent for the steam shovel (No. 1,089) for excavating and (removing ...
A typical shovel. A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. [1] Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle. Shovel blades are usually made of sheet steel or hard plastics and are very strong.
Jethro Wood was born on March 16, 1774 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. [3] His parents were John Wood and Dinah Hussey. [1] His family was Quaker, both of his parents being a part of the Society of Friends, and Wood remained Quaker throughout his life, but was not particularly doctrinaire. [4] He was born as the only son alongside five or six ...
Linnemann shovel from WWI (Romania) World War I and II era Russian MPL-50 (malaya pekhotnaya lopata – small infantry spade) are similar to the entrenching tools used by most armies participating in those conflicts. The first truly modern entrenching tool was invented in 1869 by the Danish officer Mads Johan Buch Linnemann.
Ceremony hammer of a miner VEB Kombinat Senftenberg - with honorary uniform. A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for prying.Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally metal, and increasingly fiberglass.
The following table attempts to list the oldest-known Paleolithic and Paleo-Indian sites where hominin tools have been found. It includes sites where compelling evidence of hominin tool use has been found, even if no actual tools have been found.
Traditional mining, also known as old-school mining, is a mining method involving the use of simple manual tools, such as shovels, pickaxes, hammers, chisels and pans. [1] It is done in both surface and underground environments. Until the early 1900s, traditional mining was widely used throughout the world.
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.