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Picture No 10640104
Date c.1938
Description Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath Robinson
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The inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger, another idea from the inventive mind of the gadget king, William Heath Robinson.
Source Illustration by William Heath Robinson in The Gentle Art of Excavating, a booklet for Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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