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| Picture No | 10639466 |
| Date | c.1938 |
| Description | The Gentle Art of Excavating - Early Walking Draglilne` |
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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.
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| Source | Illustration by William Heath Robinson in a booklet, The Gentle Art of Excavating, for Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd, Excavator Spe |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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