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Leo Heikkinen in 1960. Leo Leonard Heikkinen (June 11, 1917 – September 10, 1999) [1] was an American entrepreneur and millionaire who founded and owned numerous forestry production companies in Prentice, Wisconsin, including Prentice Hydraulics, Inc. (now a division of Caterpillar, Inc.) [2] and Multitek North America, LLC. [1]
Prentice Brothers Limited was an English fertiliser manufacturer founded in Stowmarket, Suffolk during the mid-1850s. The company produced a number of " chemical manure " products that used coprolites and rock phosphates among other ingredients.
Frank Winnold Prentice MC (17 February 1889 – 19 May 1982) was a British merchant seaman and the assistant storekeeper on the ocean liner RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage. He survived the sinking and at the time of his death was the second-to-last surviving crewmember of the disaster.
The company founded (as the Drott Tractor Company) by Edward Drott in 1916. [1] The company was based in Butternut, Wisconsin before moving to Wausau, Wisconsin.In 1923, after several re-organizations, it became the Drott Manufacturing Company.
Meanwhile, more and more farmers had been settling the surrounding cut-over lands left by logging. Around 1903 the private Prentice Creamery started buying milk and selling butter. In 1915, a farmers' co-operative called the Prentice Co-operative Creamery Company was formed, and it converted the old hide house to a dairy plant. It produced 500 ...
Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parked near a highway construction site. Heavy equipment, heavy machinery, earthmovers, construction vehicles, or construction equipment, refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks.
Tender Attached rail vehicle that holds both water for the boiler and fuel such as wood, coal, or oil. [1] [2] [3]: 80 Cab (US+ and UK+) Footplate (UK+) Compartment where the engineer (US+) / driver (UK+) and fireman control the locomotive and tend the steam supply and firebox.
Principle of rope-shovel operation [1]. A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, [2] is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity and used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. [3]