Category: Engineering & Technology
Steam shovels, Barnhart, 6 Boilers, 9 Bucyrus, 4 Clement, 10 Daily capacity, 41 Description, 5 Giant, 12 Invention of, 1 Little Giant, 12 Industrial Works, 10 Machinery of, 5 Marion S. S. & Dredge Co., 6 Number of men, 18 Operation, 16 Osgood, 2 Otis-Chapman, 14 Repairs, 19 So...
Widening a Cut; Loading on the Main Track.--The simplest and one of the most frequent cases for the application of a steam shovel is the widening of a single track railway cut....
4. Part III.--Disposition of Material.Loading the Material for Transportation.--The material excavated by a steam shovel is loaded on cars, wagons or carts. On railway work it is usually loaded on dump or flat cars....
2. Part I.--Steam Shovels.The following article originated in a short paper which was read before a local society of civil engineers, and there were so many requests made for this paper and the illustrat...
5. Part IV.--Cost of Steam Shovel Work.The cost of steam shovel work varies greatly with the different conditions affecting each piece of work. It depends mainly upon the nature of the material, its location, the cap...
1. PART 1.--Steam Shovels 1-19Steam shovels, Barnhart, 6 Boilers, 9 Bucyrus, 4 Clement, 10 Daily capacity, 41 Description, 5 Giant, 12 Invention of, 1 Little Giant, 12 Industrial Works, 10 Machinery of, 5 Ma...