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The company was founded in 1907 by William Henry Insley.The company holds many patents for cable-operated digging equipment, such as Dragline excavators and power shovels, such as the Insley model k12.
Cultivator No. 6 was the code name of a military trench-digging machine developed by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of World War II.The machine was originally known as White Rabbit Number Six; this code name was never officially recognised, but it was said to be derived from Churchill's metaphorical ability to pull ideas out of a hat.
Excavators are also called diggers, scoopers, mechanical shovels, or 360-degree excavators (sometimes abbreviated simply to "360"). Tracked excavators are sometimes called "trackhoes" by analogy to the backhoe. [4] In the UK, wheeled excavators are sometimes known as "rubber ducks". [5]
Indianapolis transferred the property’s deed to Indiana Landmarks for $10 and the organization then sold it to Cox, Watson and his two sons for $1. “Initially, people thought that we were ...
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Duane Gene "Digger" Carey (born April 30, 1957) is a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. [1] He piloted the space shuttle Columbia on March 1, 2002, during a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Subsidence craters remaining after underground nuclear (test) explosions at the north end of the Yucca Flat, Nevada test site. A nuclear bunker buster, [1] also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster.
The vehicle weighs about 30 tonnes, light enough to be air transportable by C-17 Globemaster III or Airbus A400M.. A clamshell front bucket and side-mounted excavator arm will allow the vehicle to perform earth-moving and obstacle-removing tasks.