The Gentle Art of Excavating - Early Walking Draglilne`
An early form of the walking dragline stripping rocky overburden preparatory to erecting a new tea shop in the Allegheny Mountains. A typically rickety contraption from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson showing a walking dragline (actually walking, the machine moves using shoes) preparing ground for the building of a tea shop
Picture No
13989403
Media ID
45686504
Size
4200px x 4216px
(2.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by William Heath Robinson in a booklet, The Gentle Art of Excavating, for Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd, Excavator Spe
Date
c.1938
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